Humpty Dumpty...Humor Me!

The Theology of Humpty Dumpty… This is going to sound cheesy but I’ve actually processed this through today so see if it speaks to you…if not… humor me…it’s been a long day.You know I was at the hospital this morning doing some testing and began to think about a childhood favorite of almost everyone…

Humpty Dumpty…
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall…
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…
All the Kings Horses…
And all the Kings Men couldn’t put Humpty back together again.
Humpty is usually visualized as a giant egg sitting on a wall.

He was loitering, maybe goofing with all his other little egg friends. Having some egg nog (cannibalism)…just living life as it comes. But then something happened that made him fall off the wall. Maybe it was a huge wind…maybe his friend pushed him off…all we know is that Humpty had a great fall.The part that I was struggling with in this children’s rhyme was that all the King’s Horses and all the Kings Men couldn’t put Humpty back together again. If these were the human king’s horses and men then they more than likely had endless resources, they had access to things, people, finances, etc. that the average person wouldn’t have had access to and they probably would have tried EVERYTHING humanly possible to think about as a solution to the mess they were probably looking at. And yet they still couldn’t do it… they still couldn’t accomplish the task at hand and resulted in the lack of sequel to the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.At this point, I want to introduce a “what if” scenario to this child’s tale… They have gone through everything, they’ve done everything to reassemble Humpty to be what He formerly was and they’ve run out of options. Have you ever come to a point where you’ve run out of options…. You’ve gotten yourself off the wall and broken either because you did something that made you fall off the wall… a wind came your way and you fell off the wall… or someone caught you off guard and knocked you off.

And then you find yourself there hoping beyond hope that these men can reassemble you before it’s too late. The Kings men can easily be awesome believers and awesome followers… they can give great wisdom… scriptures… they can have great ideas… But thinking about a new dimension to Humpty’s tale… what if God were introduced on the scene. God can surely do what men can do and what men think is impossible to do. What if the Kings men and horses… went and got the King. What if the King introduced His true power onto the scene. I envision that the King would stretch out His hands and reveal His true power and vision for this apparently broken vessel. What seems like a lost cause to our eyes may be an opportunity for truth.What if… it was the King who was behind it all? What if His ambition was to get rid of the shell? Maybe the vessel that Humpty got comfortable in… the vessel that He thought He’d be in for the rest of His life wasn’t God’s intention. I envision a broken egg on very hot concrete on a bright summer day. All the Kings Horses and All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men, help remove the shell and the debris out of the broken servant. They can’t reassemble him into what he once was, they can’t make him anything new…to them in that moment it can appear that He’s useless… but as long as the shell is gone, there is hope.

Then the King comes, smiles and the son shines down and recreates Humpty to be and be used for what God really intended. When all along, Humpty just thought He was supposed to be on the wall chillin’ in the life he’d created for himself… sippin’ some nog on a wall.But when He got up and found that He had a new purpose… He had to make new choices…so that He could be used for what the King truly desired. Sometimes that means finding a new wall… sometimes it’s a new you on an old wall. And sometimes it’s just continuing to be salted.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall…
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall…
All the Kings Horses and All the Kings Men
couldn’t put Humpty back together again.
So, they petitioned the King and onward He came…
He surveyed the scene and smiled the same…
All the Kings followers removed the debris,
Stepped back and watched the power of their King.

Humpty Dumpty now stands tall…
Humpty Dumpty passes by that old wall…
All of his heart and all of his soul,
Leads others from the wall,
now to the feet of the throne.

Don’t view something that has been hurt or broken as damage… God sees it as a great opportunity to become a new creature… sometimes a creature that others from the past, who didn’t see the transition no longer recognize.I've definitely been taken from a broken aparently nothing and created into something useful to God. If you are feeling broken, petition the King to transform you... you'll never wish you were on that old wall again when the power of the real King grasps the depths of your heart.