I’ve got something I want to share. There might be something here helpful to you personally, or perhaps it might help you to understand and help someone you know.

Just as I was about to begin my Bible reading today, a nursery rhyme came into mind:

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the kings horses
And all the kings men
Couldn’t put poor Humpty together again.

Then, after a chuckle, I read Exodus chapter 14 where the LORD God divided the red sea and led the Israelites, with Moses at the head, through it on dry land. But when they got to the other side safe on the bank, the LORD brought the sea, which was walled high up on both sides to allow the Israelites through, down upon Pharoh, his horses and men.

Then there was no Pharoh, horses and men
To help one another back together again…because they all drowned!

Pharoh, the slave driver and his obedient followers were no match for the power of God. Pharoh was a tyrannical leader but he didn’t know how vulnerable and fragile he was.

Then I sang ‘Fight the good fight with all thy might, Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right…’

Next I read Matthew chapter 21 where Jesus is praised, recognized as humble king riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, knowing that there He would be mocked for His beliefs, tortured, killed, but then come back to life after a few days.

He drives those doing work other than God’s out of the temple and shouts “My Fathers house shall be called a house of prayer, You have made it a den of thieves”.

He curses a fig tree because it didn’t give him its fruit to eat, and it dies.
He tells His followers “If you believe you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer”.

Some people puffed up with their own self importance question His authority in His re-organisation of the temple but he poses them a question about authority that they cannot or dare not answer.

He tells us that it doesn’t matter what you say you will do for God, it’s what you actually do for God that matters, even if it takes time to discover and learn what He has for you to do and clarity on how to do it.

And finally, in that chapter, Jesus warns the so called ‘religious’ legalistic teachers and leaders that unless they do the will of God that He teaches they will not survive the outcome of their misguided actions.

Then I sang ‘God is working His purpose out…’

Back to Humpty Dumpty.

Perhaps there is a message in all this for you or another?

Are you sitting on the wall feeling fragile, looking one way at the world and thinking that kind of life is respectable to a lot of people and I can get what I want there, but you know that if you jump down to that side you’ll break into pieces with no one to put you back together again, because they’re to busy striving for what they want and for power of some sort?

Or you look to the other side of the wall to God’s way, Listening to Jesus, doing what He says to do, but you have problems clouding, even obscuring, your sight of and hearing of Jesus?

If this seems like you then it might be time to join the celebrate recovery program. Or you might want to campaign to get this program put on in your church for people who need healing, including for ‘hurts, habits and hang ups’ (CR general http://www.celebraterecovery.com/   International http://official-celebraterecovery-intl.blogspot.com  wanting to start one in your church http://www.celebraterecovery-sw.org/FAQ's.htm).

Perhaps you do feel like Humpty Dumpty, fragile and afraid to move, but consider this:

Things impossible for human kind are possible for God. You can get through your own red sea safely if you trust God.

Or perhaps you’re convinced that you are following Jesus. Consider then what Jesus said “Be careful that the light in you is not actually darkness”.

Which way do you chose?

Pharoh’s way of tyrannical power?

Or God’s way supremely demonstrated by Jesus?

I am not on the fence. God knows the way that I have chosen. It’s not the easy way, and it’s not the way of the tyrant or their slaves. Sometimes it involves being mocked for your beliefs and acting out your convictions of faith. In all truth I can say that I die and rise again time and time again in different ways following Jesus but it’s well worth it for the joy of knowing His presence and in this the presence of God Almighty in company with the Holy Spirit.

Have you chosen a particular spiritual path in life? If so why so? Or if not, why not?