The Potter's House

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the Kings horses and all the Kings men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

As a child I use to love the story about Humpty Dumpty. I never quite understood what this story meant, until yesterday. I always thought the moral of the story was after Humpty Dumpty fell, he could never be put back together again. However I missed one key component. I never realized or analyzed who was putting Humpty Dumpty back together again, until it was brought to my attention. You see this story outlines the obvious; it was man trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together. This helped me realize and understand that when you've been broken, man can't build you up, there's only one person that can put you back together and make you whole, and that is God.

Often times we go through life's challenges relying on man to fix our problems, or to make things better. Instead we need to be going to the creator; after all it was the creator that created us. We put to much confidence in man and not enough in God. God wants to be the Potter of our lives. He wants to take our broken pieces and rebuild us, mold us and shape us into what he has divinely purposed us to be. The problem is we get in the way. We allow "The Kings horses and the Kings men" to try and put us back together again, and they can't. Thus creating a world of people who seem put together but are still broken, they still have cracks, missing pieces, and debris from their fall, yet they are longing to one day be made whole.

"In case you have fallen by the wayside of life; dreams and visions shattered, you’re all broken inside. You don't have to stay in the shape that you're in; the potter wants to put you back together again, oh, the potter wants to put you back together again" (The Potter's House Tremaine Hawkins). Let us all learn from Humpty Dumpty, stop letting man try to do what they can't physically do. Let's take our broken pieces back to the potter, for if he fashioned us from the dust of the earth, surely he can mend our broken pieces.