Tuskegee Lee Association
My Uncle Lonzo Latimer never owned a car in his life. He spent most of his days on his small family farm with his not-so-small family. He had a couple of mules named Daisy and Lazy, a Farm-All tractor and a 1949 Chevrolet “pick-em-up truck,” as he liked to call it.
Probably the closest he came to having an automatic transmission in any of his vehicles would have been those two old mules.
When I was about 10 years old my daddy bought a used 1962 Buick Electra 225. We called that car a Buick Deuce and a Quarter. I thought it was the grandest car I had ever seen in my life, but I wasn’t nearly as impressed with it as my Uncle Lonzo was. It had a 445 cubic inch motor under the hood and would run like a house cat whose tail had been stepped on. It had all the extras too: electric windows, electric movable seats, power steering and an AM/FM radio (of course there weren’t any FM radio stations close enough to pick up).
Uncle Lonzo didn’t care much for the electric seats. Daddy talked him into sliding in under the wheel. Daddy reached down and moved that seat forward, but it failed to measure up to Uncle Lonzo’s movement. He almost jerked the steering wheel out trying to get out of that car.
The feature that fascinated my Uncle Lonzo the most was the brake pedal. He didn’t realize that the transmission was an automatic or that you didn’t have to change gears. When he looked down to see that big, old power brake pedal, he shook his head in amazement and said, “Boys, I don’t believe I’ve even seen one with the brake and the clutch all put together into one pedal!”
Uncle Lonzo had never seen anything like that car and you and I have never seen anything like heaven. 1 Corinthians 2:9 says “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.” If we know God we will see things we’ve never imagined.
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