Howdy Family,
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again….
We are all familiar with this old skool nursery rhyme… but have we ever related humpty dumpty to ourselves or the situations we often find ourselves?
Some of us can get up easily when we fall, but for some of us, at times there are some falls which leaves us shattered, battered, bruised and exhausted!... Some of us are secretly still ‘walking wounded’ from a great ‘fallen’ experience…internally hoping that no one will realise that we have fallen…and are broken! (Side Note: I am praying that very soon, we will be able to experience church where we can come as BROKEN as we are…. Without the need to hide our scars!...Without the religiously correct need to ‘act saved’…or pretend that we are ‘doing just fine’… ‘blessed & highly favored’…. Let the truth be told – ‘I’m fallen’…’I’m slippin’ and I can’t get up’)
I’m not sure about you, but when I first came to the Lord, I did not come to the Lord to fill a church pew, or become a preacher, to become PG, nor was it to travel the world to spread the gospel or write books...to be truly honest, I had a selfish motive. I came to the Lord because I realised that I had fallen, I was broken, I was naked... everything that I had held in high regards had fallen from underneath my feet. I was broken in pieces, I was alone, unable to piece together the mess of my life, I felt stuck in a mud pit... overwhelmed with guilt, choked by bad choices...unable to dream, unable to see any light at the end of the tunnel, unable to wake up from the nightmare which had become my reality... I came to God because I was desperate for someone who was WILLING & ABLE to put back my broken pieces....
Some of us were lucky enough to be born into church & Christianity, surrounded with love & protection...but for some of us...we found ourselves like the prodigal son.. ’....in a far country...’ ...in a fallen state...we came to God out of desperation! In need of direction, in need of hope, in need of a new lease of life...in need of a Saviour that is able to put back the broken and shattered pieces of our lives!
Ever allowed a ‘J.Holiday’ that was not your wife / husband to ‘put you to bed?’...and then you got up out of the wrong bed...and a sense of guilt and brokenness crept up on you?.... Well, that’s a fallen state...
When ever, we get out of position / dis-align ourselves from God or God’s plans for our lives...that is a fallen state!
Well fam, have you found yourself in a fallen state?
Are you experiencing broken dreams?, broken promises?, broken life?, broken faith?
...well God can and He will put you back together!...That’s what it says on His CV....”The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised...” (Luke 4:18)
If you feel broken right now, please do not turn to the world (all the king’s horses and all the king’s men) or try to fix yourself up before coming to God.... He wants you to come unto Him, as broken as you are. He requires nothing from you apart from you surrendering yourself unto Him, so that He can make you whole again.
I often like to refer to God as a potter, as symbolized in the book of Jeremiah. God is a potter, who is sitting at the wheel, with the clay (you & me) in His hands, and who can still turn a broken clay pot into a vessel of honour, of greatness...because as long as we remain in the hands of the potter, He can fix us up, and make us whole again!
So the rhyme should now read...
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again….(The devil is a liar!)....because Jesus came, paid the price, and made Humpty Dumpty whole again...
Fam, I am unsure what you are dealing with privately...those things which you will not talk about, secretly hoping they'll just 'go way!', but I do know that When life happens to us....it can leave us broken and exhausted, so exhausted that we become sick and tired of been sick and tired!.... But let me tell you that from my own personal experience, even when people, friends & family cannot help you get back on your feet after a fall...God can, because of this two passages "But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26)
“...His strength is made perfect in our weakness...” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
God is love...
G
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again….
We are all familiar with this old skool nursery rhyme… but have we ever related humpty dumpty to ourselves or the situations we often find ourselves?
Some of us can get up easily when we fall, but for some of us, at times there are some falls which leaves us shattered, battered, bruised and exhausted!... Some of us are secretly still ‘walking wounded’ from a great ‘fallen’ experience…internally hoping that no one will realise that we have fallen…and are broken! (Side Note: I am praying that very soon, we will be able to experience church where we can come as BROKEN as we are…. Without the need to hide our scars!...Without the religiously correct need to ‘act saved’…or pretend that we are ‘doing just fine’… ‘blessed & highly favored’…. Let the truth be told – ‘I’m fallen’…’I’m slippin’ and I can’t get up’)
I’m not sure about you, but when I first came to the Lord, I did not come to the Lord to fill a church pew, or become a preacher, to become PG, nor was it to travel the world to spread the gospel or write books...to be truly honest, I had a selfish motive. I came to the Lord because I realised that I had fallen, I was broken, I was naked... everything that I had held in high regards had fallen from underneath my feet. I was broken in pieces, I was alone, unable to piece together the mess of my life, I felt stuck in a mud pit... overwhelmed with guilt, choked by bad choices...unable to dream, unable to see any light at the end of the tunnel, unable to wake up from the nightmare which had become my reality... I came to God because I was desperate for someone who was WILLING & ABLE to put back my broken pieces....
Some of us were lucky enough to be born into church & Christianity, surrounded with love & protection...but for some of us...we found ourselves like the prodigal son.. ’....in a far country...’ ...in a fallen state...we came to God out of desperation! In need of direction, in need of hope, in need of a new lease of life...in need of a Saviour that is able to put back the broken and shattered pieces of our lives!
Ever allowed a ‘J.Holiday’ that was not your wife / husband to ‘put you to bed?’...and then you got up out of the wrong bed...and a sense of guilt and brokenness crept up on you?.... Well, that’s a fallen state...
When ever, we get out of position / dis-align ourselves from God or God’s plans for our lives...that is a fallen state!
Well fam, have you found yourself in a fallen state?
Are you experiencing broken dreams?, broken promises?, broken life?, broken faith?
...well God can and He will put you back together!...That’s what it says on His CV....”The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised...” (Luke 4:18)
If you feel broken right now, please do not turn to the world (all the king’s horses and all the king’s men) or try to fix yourself up before coming to God.... He wants you to come unto Him, as broken as you are. He requires nothing from you apart from you surrendering yourself unto Him, so that He can make you whole again.
I often like to refer to God as a potter, as symbolized in the book of Jeremiah. God is a potter, who is sitting at the wheel, with the clay (you & me) in His hands, and who can still turn a broken clay pot into a vessel of honour, of greatness...because as long as we remain in the hands of the potter, He can fix us up, and make us whole again!
So the rhyme should now read...
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again….(The devil is a liar!)....because Jesus came, paid the price, and made Humpty Dumpty whole again...
Fam, I am unsure what you are dealing with privately...those things which you will not talk about, secretly hoping they'll just 'go way!', but I do know that When life happens to us....it can leave us broken and exhausted, so exhausted that we become sick and tired of been sick and tired!.... But let me tell you that from my own personal experience, even when people, friends & family cannot help you get back on your feet after a fall...God can, because of this two passages "But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." (Matthew 19:26)
“...His strength is made perfect in our weakness...” (2 Corinthians 12:9)
God is love...
G
