{"id":1090,"date":"2009-08-21T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2009-10-08T18:17:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T23:17:23","slug":"its-whats-under-the-hood-that-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/21\/its-whats-under-the-hood-that-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s What’s Under the Hood that Counts…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always loved cars and motorcycles. <\/strong> If memory serves me correctly, in 1977, Ford Motor Company introduced something they called, \u201cThe Ford Pinto Cruising Wagon.\u201d It was a station wagon with moon windows in the back and a rainbow paint scheme. My brother had one. It had several strikes against it. It was a Ford Pinto, possibly one of the most pathetic cars ever produced by Detroit \u2013 strike one. It was a station wagon \u2013 station wagons are not exactly cool sports cars \u2013 strike two. It was gutless \u2013 strike three. On the outside, it was flashy. But it was still a Ford Pinto, under the hood. It\u2019s as though the design team didn\u2019t know the basic truth that it\u2019s not what\u2019s on the outside of the car that matters; it\u2019s what\u2019s under the hood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Contrast that to a little Yamaha RD-350. I had one of them when I was sixteen years old. Anybody who was anybody had a Honda 500 Four. But I had the little Yamaha 350. It was very ordinary looking. No sissy bar. No highway pegs. It sounded like a wind-up toy when you revved it \u2013 ring-a-ding-ding. Like a chain saw with a string of sleigh-bells attached. It smoked like a coal furnace — except it was the blue smoke of the two-cycle engine. In spite of how it looked and sounded, it had a rockin\u2019 two-stroke engine. When I sat on the bike, all 145 pounds of me, it would beat those lazy Honda 500 Fours, leaving them to breathe that blue smoke. To me, the RD-350 was a great example of how you can misjudge something if you don\u2019t look closely \u2013 look under the hood<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In our passage today, <\/strong>Jesus gives three of his disciples a look under the hood. And what they learn is that he is not a Ford Pinto. Oh \u2013 and Jesus is not an RD-350. Jesus is the Son of the Most High God<\/em>.<\/p>\n