I like your analogy of a wrecked car but at the same time I’m struggling to see it. I’m struggling because is it really the cells and skin covering this body (the meat and bones) that is wrecked …or the mind which steers the body
“Aren’t you still living in your flesh?” Makes me think of “we move and have our being in Him.” To clarify further consider “a flesh body” in regards to the church. Is “a flesh body” skin or a mind set of debates, strife, hatred, divisions and slander…that body of flesh with your question “aren’t you still living in your flesh”? Point is wrecked skin I do see in the mirror as it begins to age and wrinkle …I get there is more underneath like diseases, muscles and disk that deteriorate. But again is that the wreckage or the thoughts that dominated over (meat and bone)until worn out and just can’t go anymore..Out of gas? Yet He said the Lame leap …which oddly makes me think of John the Baptist leapt in the womb …
Luke 1:41-44 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit: [42] And she spoke out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. [43] And how is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? [44] For, lo, as soon as the voice of your salutation was heard in my ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.