Poor  Humpty Dumpty. But... blessed Humpty Dumpty. How creative.



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From: Sharon Hooley  <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, October 12, 2017 3:05 pm
Subject: Another Humpty Dumpty Story, forwarded from a friend

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> Know anyone who just can't let go of guilt and shame?  Here's a story that might help.
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> Subject: Humpty Dumpty story
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> 9) If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  10)But if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  1 John: 9,10
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> Here is how someone very special to all our hearts, dealt with these truths in his heart. The truth of verse 9, versus verse 10!
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> Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.  That's when HD knew what he had to do.  (verse 9) To call upon God!  Humpty Dumpty (HD) really struggled with that for a while because he thought he could fix it himself (verse 10).  But eventually he bent his knee and realized his need.  (Although he didn't remember his need very long it seemed.  He kept switching back from verse 9 above to verse 10!  Sometimes being willing to confess, and sometimes expecting himself to not need help.)  HD really had a struggle with the fact he needed help for a very long time, although the fact that he needed help was in some way always obvious to him, at least when he was being honest!!  (verse 9!)
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> God loved HD very dearly, and also knew when He made HD that he would do something silly like this. He answered when HD called and kindly agreed to put HD back together again.  He gently explained it obviously was going to take a while, and it would be a slow job for which much patience and grace was required (honestly, by both parties!).  So here and there, the Lord would take a little piece and with HD's cooperation, place it where it needed to go.  But sometimes HD would try to argue that it was going in the wrong place.  Do you know that feeling too?  I know I do!  Slowly and surely though, at least sometimes HD'd start to remember by the process of prior experience, that it really did seem the Lord knew what He was doing, because when he let the Lord do it His way, things would start to really come together.  
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> The Lord could deal with that attitude, but there was another pervading attitude by HD that just drove the Lord crazy.  During those times HD just couldn't forgive himself for falling off of that wall in the first place.  It was as if HD had expected himself to be perfect from the get go.  Those verse 10 times, when it was as if HD expect himself to never be a sinner, in need of the LORD.  Not in the first place, and sometimes or many, not even after his fall.  Thus deceiving himself and then obviously not cooperating with the Lord's repair job very well.
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> That was the attitude that made the repair all the more difficult to do, because every time the Lord wanted to work on fixing another part of HD, HD would just sit there feeling so guilty about his fall, yet hurting from it... needing help, yet feeling guilty for it, that he argued all the more with the Lord, when God was trying to fix him.  Part of the bargain of the repair though, was for HD to admit his need for repair, (verse 9) and his cooperation in allowing God to reach so deep inside.  His verse 10 times was the attitude that slowed HD down.  Even just stopped the process altogether.  At least until HD was ready to admit his need yet again, and confess his confidence was not in the right place.  
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> Oh, poor HD, if he could only really and truly get over the fact that he too was a sinner, in need of the Lord!!!  Oh, poor HD, if he could only accept that yes, indeed he was guilty, but yes indeed, when he called to Christ, he'd be forgiven!  Then his repairs would go smoothly, when he accepted that God knew what He was doing, even when HD didn't understand.  If he only accepted the fact he bumbled, and was still prone to bumble in other ways, than just falling off a wall...  (confessing his bumbles and sins, and thus being cleansed when he did...) things would go much smoother, rather than spending all his time upset that he was not indeed perfect in the first place!  Oh, poor HD.  Not only did he fall in the first place, but he couldn't even cooperate with the Lord afterwards!!  Or actually using the word 'couldn't' is wrong.  It really should have been stated 'wouldn't'.  Wouldn't continue to admit his sin.  Wouldn't continue to accept how very deeply he needed the Lord.  
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> Hopefully HD will realize God didn't ever expect him to be perfect!  Hopefully HD will realize that the very confession that he is not perfect, this is what promotes his process of being completed!  But as long as HD would rather sit around feeling condemned, (as if he expected he was never a sinner in the first place, like verse 10), well, that is when he deceives himself, and is exactly what slows his repairs down!!  
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> So please pray for Humpty that he would accept God's grace to realize he is not perfect.  And to accept God's grace to realize God never even expected him to be perfect!  To accept the fact he is loved, just the very way he is!!  But also loved too much, for his repairs not to continue!!  Pray that he not deceive himself anymore, ever again!!
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> Oh, thank you for praying!!  Now HD is doing better, because when the Lord does show him some area in need of repair, Humpty is thankful instead!  He is much more cooperative!  Instead of being upset about needing help, he has learned to be much more cooperative, (sort of like clay learning to let the Master do with it what He will).  
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> Now NOBODY believed this would ever happen, but the MOST amazing transformation in HD's heart happened the other day, which made everybody very happy!  It was when HD eventually realized to continue expect more repairs in the future!!!  Can you even believe it yourself???!!!  He started to get so excited about the results that occurred when he was verse 9, so much so that he started looking forward to those very repairs!!!  It's almost as if you might say, he started to begin to see!!!  The big miracle was recently when he even pursued God in all honest get out, to start showing him what else was wrong!!!!!  Mentally and emotionally being prepared to be corrected!!!  Oh, he knew it might hurt a little bit, but only his pride, he realized.  And he started to learn, that that was a good thing, anyway!  Oh, what a thing of beauty that was to God, because it made showing him what was next, SO MUCH EASIER!!!!!                                                                                                                                And then they all lived happily ever after, when HD learned to live in verse 9, rather than 10!  When he learned to live by grace through faith, rather than live under guilt and condemnation!  When HD learned really, how to be free!!!
> 
> Know anyone who just can't let go of guilt and shame?  Here's a story that might help.
> 
> 
> Subject: Humpty Dumpty story
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> 
> 9) If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  10)But if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  1 John: 9,10
> 
> 
> Here is how someone very special to all our hearts, dealt with these truths in his heart. The truth of verse 9, versus verse 10!
> 
> 
> Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.  That's when HD knew what he had to do.  (verse 9) To call upon God!  Humpty Dumpty (HD) really struggled with that for a while because he thought he could fix it himself (verse 10).  But eventually he bent his knee and realized his need.  (Although he didn't remember his need very long it seemed.  He kept switching back from verse 9 above to verse 10!  Sometimes being willing to confess, and sometimes expecting himself to not need help.)  HD really had a struggle with the fact he needed help for a very long time, although the fact that he needed help was in some way always obvious to him, at least when he was being honest!!  (verse 9!)
> 
> 
> God loved HD very dearly, and also knew when He made HD that he would do something silly like this. He answered when HD called and kindly agreed to put HD back together again.  He gently explained it obviously was going to take a while, and it would be a slow job for which much patience and grace was required (honestly, by both parties!).  So here and there, the Lord would take a little piece and with HD's cooperation, place it where it needed to go.  But sometimes HD would try to argue that it was going in the wrong place.  Do you know that feeling too?  I know I do!  Slowly and surely though, at least sometimes HD'd start to remember by the process of prior experience, that it really did seem the Lord knew what He was doing, because when he let the Lord do it His way, things would start to really come together.  
> 
> 
> The Lord could deal with that attitude, but there was another pervading attitude by HD that just drove the Lord crazy.  During those times HD just couldn't forgive himself for falling off of that wall in the first place.  It was as if HD had expected himself to be perfect from the get go.  Those verse 10 times, when it was as if HD expect himself to never be a sinner, in need of the LORD.  Not in the first place, and sometimes or many, not even after his fall.  Thus deceiving himself and then obviously not cooperating with the Lord's repair job very well.
> 
> 
> That was the attitude that made the repair all the more difficult to do, because every time the Lord wanted to work on fixing another part of HD, HD would just sit there feeling so guilty about his fall, yet hurting from it... needing help, yet feeling guilty for it, that he argued all the more with the Lord, when God was trying to fix him.  Part of the bargain of the repair though, was for HD to admit his need for repair, (verse 9) and his cooperation in allowing God to reach so deep inside.  His verse 10 times was the attitude that slowed HD down.  Even just stopped the process altogether.  At least until HD was ready to admit his need yet again, and confess his confidence was not in the right place.  
> 
> 
> Oh, poor HD, if he could only really and truly get over the fact that he too was a sinner, in need of the Lord!!!  Oh, poor HD, if he could only accept that yes, indeed he was guilty, but yes indeed, when he called to Christ, he'd be forgiven!  Then his repairs would go smoothly, when he accepted that God knew what He was doing, even when HD didn't understand.  If he only accepted the fact he bumbled, and was still prone to bumble in other ways, than just falling off a wall...  (confessing his bumbles and sins, and thus being cleansed when he did...) things would go much smoother, rather than spending all his time upset that he was not indeed perfect in the first place!  Oh, poor HD.  Not only did he fall in the first place, but he couldn't even cooperate with the Lord afterwards!!  Or actually using the word 'couldn't' is wrong.  It really should have been stated 'wouldn't'.  Wouldn't continue to admit his sin.  Wouldn't continue to accept how very deeply he needed the Lord.  
> 
> 
> Hopefully HD will realize God didn't ever expect him to be perfect!  Hopefully HD will realize that the very confession that he is not perfect, this is what promotes his process of being completed!  But as long as HD would rather sit around feeling condemned, (as if he expected he was never a sinner in the first place, like verse 10), well, that is when he deceives himself, and is exactly what slows his repairs down!!  
> 
> 
> So please pray for Humpty that he would accept God's grace to realize he is not perfect.  And to accept God's grace to realize God never even expected him to be perfect!  To accept the fact he is loved, just the very way he is!!  But also loved too much, for his repairs not to continue!!  Pray that he not deceive himself anymore, ever again!!
> 
> 
> Oh, thank you for praying!!  Now HD is doing better, because when the Lord does show him some area in need of repair, Humpty is thankful instead!  He is much more cooperative!  Instead of being upset about needing help, he has learned to be much more cooperative, (sort of like clay learning to let the Master do with it what He will).  
> 
> 
> Now NOBODY believed this would ever happen, but the MOST amazing transformation in HD's heart happened the other day, which made everybody very happy!  It was when HD eventually realized to continue expect more repairs in the future!!!  Can you even believe it yourself???!!!  He started to get so excited about the results that occurred when he was verse 9, so much so that he started looking forward to those very repairs!!!  It's almost as if you might say, he started to begin to see!!!  The big miracle was recently when he even pursued God in all honest get out, to start showing him what else was wrong!!!!!  Mentally and emotionally being prepared to be corrected!!!  Oh, he knew it might hurt a little bit, but only his pride, he realized.  And he started to learn, that that was a good thing, anyway!  Oh, what a thing of beauty that was to God, because it made showing him what was next, SO MUCH EASIER!!!!!                                                                                                                                And then they all lived happily ever after, when HD learned to live in verse 9, rather than 10!  When he learned to live by grace through faith, rather than live under guilt and condemnation!  When HD learned really, how to be free!!!