Growing up, I enjoyed reciting a lot of nursery ryhmes. One of my favourites was "Humpty Dumpty". While pondering on God's love, it's implications and my experiences of it recently,I realised the contradictions of that ryhme to God's love is as night is to day or as The Bible says the thoughts of God to ours is as far as heaven is to earth.( my paraphrase).
The ryhme goes thus " Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the kings men, coudln't put Humpty together again.
Visualise Humpty as someone who probably weighs half a tonne( 500 kilos- hey don't laugh, there are a few people like that.It is not a pleasant sight to behold the human body left to degrade through indiscipline). However the real Humpty was not a person but a cannon sitting on a wall in some english town called Colchester during the medievial period. Yes, the rhyme has a real background.
Now consider this- all the king's horses and men tried but couldn't put Humpty back again, perhaps because it was so broken to pieces.BUT I AM SO GLAD that despite the "ton" of mistakes we make in life, GOD'S PERFECT LOVE is always there to put us back together AGAIN. I call it the gift of RESTORATION and there are two scriptures that describe this beautifully.
Joel 2.25 " So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust and the chewing locust..."
Isaiah 55.6-7 " Seek the Lord while he may be found, Call on Him while He is near.Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrigheous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, A nd He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
This gift is wrapped up in the love of the Father that is so perfect that it straightens the crooked paths of our life. But the best aspect of it all is that it drives out whatever fears we have about our mistakes and deals lovingly with all our cares and concerns.1 John 4.17-18 " ...God is love.....there is no fear in love ; but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment..."
The LOVE of our FATHER is PERFECT.It is complete. With the help of the Holy Spirit, immerse yourself in it and allow it to cleanse your soul.Drink from it so that it quenches all thirst; Feed from it so that it nourishes and gives you life and live out of it so that exceeeding joy is a continious experience.
OUR FATHER'S LOVE puts together PERFECTLY what the best of the King's men and horses couldn't DO!!!
The ryhme goes thus " Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the king's horses and all the kings men, coudln't put Humpty together again.
Visualise Humpty as someone who probably weighs half a tonne( 500 kilos- hey don't laugh, there are a few people like that.It is not a pleasant sight to behold the human body left to degrade through indiscipline). However the real Humpty was not a person but a cannon sitting on a wall in some english town called Colchester during the medievial period. Yes, the rhyme has a real background.
Now consider this- all the king's horses and men tried but couldn't put Humpty back again, perhaps because it was so broken to pieces.BUT I AM SO GLAD that despite the "ton" of mistakes we make in life, GOD'S PERFECT LOVE is always there to put us back together AGAIN. I call it the gift of RESTORATION and there are two scriptures that describe this beautifully.
Joel 2.25 " So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust and the chewing locust..."
Isaiah 55.6-7 " Seek the Lord while he may be found, Call on Him while He is near.Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrigheous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, A nd He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon.
This gift is wrapped up in the love of the Father that is so perfect that it straightens the crooked paths of our life. But the best aspect of it all is that it drives out whatever fears we have about our mistakes and deals lovingly with all our cares and concerns.1 John 4.17-18 " ...God is love.....there is no fear in love ; but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment..."
The LOVE of our FATHER is PERFECT.It is complete. With the help of the Holy Spirit, immerse yourself in it and allow it to cleanse your soul.Drink from it so that it quenches all thirst; Feed from it so that it nourishes and gives you life and live out of it so that exceeeding joy is a continious experience.
OUR FATHER'S LOVE puts together PERFECTLY what the best of the King's men and horses couldn't DO!!!
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