What's wrong with Humpty Dumpty?

First an apology to my four faithful followers on this blog, it has been nearly a year since I have posted and I am sorry. Let’s chalk it up to my ADD! Moving onward my amazing wife, Holly, encouraged me to get reengaged with this especially since we are starting this new chapter in our lives with foster children. So nearly a year later I want to start off by tell you why I personally hate 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 Dumpty back together again.

Seriously?!? Does this small rhyme have anything to do with Christian beliefs? Don’t get me wrong, many of them don’t and were not written to do so but many nursery rhymes give a solid life lesson that many Christians could learn even a small thing from today.

Humpty Dumpty is the opposite, it literally tells us that the king is not powerful enough to put him back together despite all his efforts. Here’s what makes me dislike this one…

When we fall, when we are broken, when we need to be restored the King is the only one who can help us. I don’t want to bring a new small child into our home and share with him or her the Love of God, explain that He is the One True King, and you can g to Him whenever you feel broken or worn and He can restore, and then sing this nursery rhyme that says the opposite. Despite how hard they tried the king and his men and horses couldn’t do it.

1 Peter 5:10 says, “And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.”

Not only are we restored in the King but we are made stronger, firm, and steadfast!