We all know the nursery rhyme, 'Humpty Dumpty':
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.
I believe it started out as a riddle. Humpty is often portrayed as an egg, and of course you couldn't put an egg back together again if it falls and cracks open.
I felt a failure today.
The dictionary said 'failure' is not achieving success.
So we're sitting on the wall with Humpty
or we're lying on the floor in a mess.
It's one or the other.
Or is it?
I started thinking about the story of Adam and Eve in my time with God today. They ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, right? They were alive because God breathed life into them, so why did he plant the tree of life in the garden....why did they need it if they were already alive? He said they would die if they ate the forbidden fruit...but they didn't die, did they? What's going on here?
There is a life that God wants us to have which is something we choose for ourselves. And yes, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil brought death into the world - death and sadness and sickness and pain. If only they'd eaten from the tree of life instead! They chose death, not knowledge. God never intended us to even think about good, ... or evil. He only wanted us to have ever growing life and have it in abundance.
Maybe there's an alternative to success or failure. If we look at the Humpty story and see sitting on the wall as success and falling off as failure, how many of us have felt that we've missed the mark in life? We just haven't made it, or if we have made it, we live life terrified that we might fall off! Let's relax because there is an alternative. It's faith, it's hope and it's love.
His love for us, - inspiring in us, through faith, a hope that is certain and sure.
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