🥚Humpty Dumpty Put Back Together🫗

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 back together again.

I’m not sure when I first heard that but it was a long time ago. Humpty Dumpty was pictured as an egg although it never says anything about an egg. So as a child I sang that riddle as a song; can’t you hear the music now? Anyways I understand that as much as one tried to put all the broken pieces back together it just could not be done. When we were babies we were all the wonder of our parents. They were so proud of us why most dads back in the day gave real cigars away at our birth. Now you might get a bubble gum looking cigar if even that. Oh, but back in the good old days it was a real smoke. Then one day we told our first lie 😱oh no. Then we disobeyed our parents by doing what they told us not to do. As sorry and you and I might have been there was no way to go back and fix it. We couldn't untell the lie and we couldn’t fix the wrongness of disobeying. Just imagine the image of an egg falling to the floor and being broken never to be put back together. Brokenness is hard to fix but our parents, as wonderful as they were, forgave us and life went on.  Then later in life our learning changed to that of somehow there was an explosion and when it was over well we have this beautiful world we now live in? I can see why we are a bit confused, can’t you? We can’t put it back together and then somehow all the pieces came together and something beautiful was made. 🙆🏻‍♂️Sounds a bit crazy doesn’t it? Now I think it is really hard to put trust in that theory. This theory is much easier to place trust in.

Genesis 1:1 (KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

John 1:3 (KJV) All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

No Humpty Dumpty being put back together.

Oh but it goes much deeper than that. Just as we disobey and lied to our parents we have all done the same to our Heavenly Father and more. Now the question is have we realized it and have we asked for forgiveness? If we haven’t we are broken and never will we be put back together without realizing we have been broken. 

1 John 1:9 (KJV) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Just like Adam and Eve our wrongs must be acknowledged before they can be forgiven. 

😀Good News📰

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! and what your potential is!

~Anne Frank~

Good news, let me be honest, the real truth is, but the question is can you believe who says those words? Does this person care about me? Or do they just want me to buy their product or sign up for their plan?  Am I really hearing the truth or are they just saying it’s the truth. How does anyone know they are hearing the truth? Are we asking the same question as Pilate asked; “What is truth?” John 18:38? 

Truth never changes 2+2=4 that will never change. It’s true that the sun will come up every morning and that will not change. Look at a lake and the surface of the water is always level that will not change. I have never heard anyone while boating say “hold on we are about to go down a steep hill.” We may put cream and lotions on our face and look like we are much younger than we are, but the truth is we get older everyday and that will not change. Life and death are true, whoever is born will also die. That is true and cannot be changed. What is the meaning of truth in our world today? I found this statement. “In today's world, truth is often split between objective reality (what actually matches facts) and subjective experience (what an individual feels or perceives as "my truth.” So what’s wrong  for you may not be wrong for me because I feel like it is true. Feelings have nothing to do with what is true. Truth never changes! What was true in 1950 is also true in 2026. Jesus steps out on the pages of our Bible and makes this statement John 14:6 (KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Truth is important. Truth may or may not have feelings but we should never take our feelings over truth. What if I were to feel like I could fly? I go on top of my house and jump off. What is going to happen? Truth is going to take over in the form of gravity and down I go because gravity is truth. What goes up must come down. God is looking for people who worship Him in spirit and truth. John 4:23 (KJV) But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

God wants people to have the correct information about Him. We can’t worship Him in spirit and truth unless we have true knowledge about Him. Where do we find that knowledge? We have a Bible that is full of truth. Sometimes it may be easy to believe a lie and many times the truth hurts to the point we just don’t want to believe it. John 8:45 (KJV) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

God’s truth is seen everyday. 

Matthew 5:45 (KJV) That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

We were able to get up this morning because God loves us. God has given the greatest gift anyone could give. The truth is that God sent His Son Jesus Christ into this world to pay our sin debt which we could never pay. It's a gift that we must receive, it is offered to everyone in the whole world. We will all get to feel the sun today and we need it for many reasons. The rain, well it’s for everyone too. Why? Because God loves us He gives. The payment for our sin, well it is for everyone too. Do we understand we are sinners? Do we know that God hates sin? God has provided a way out and a wonderful home, all you and I have to do is to realize we need it. 

Oh happy day when I realized Jesus really loved me. I ran to His open arms and He took me in and I have never been the same. More about Jesus I would know, more of His love to others show. Hallelujah I’m going home! Because I have a true book, the Bibles to show me the way. Oh what a Loving God we have. 

🍕Pizza ❤️

Love is not getting what one deserves, it's receiving what one doesn't deserve. 

I”m amazed by today's meaning of Love. We say we love so many things. We say I love my boat, car, house, life, pizza why we say we can even make it. We have so weakened its meaning. We hear others say “I’m getting married to the love of my life.” Only to find out that life must have ended because now we hear they are getting a divorce; and you heard one of them or both say “I hate instead of I love.” Oh what happened to the love? Maybe it was a  pizza love, they could take it or leave. That my friend is not love at all, at least not the Love of God. I can see how it would be hard to understand love if you don’t know what love is. Love keeps its word. Love wants the best. One of, if not the most favorite verses in the Bible is John 3:16 and it reads like this. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Don’t read so fast, God so loved that he did something. What was that? “he gave.”

God didn’t do like some of us have done. There was a husband that gave his wife a car. Wow now that’s love. You think? Here is the rest of the story. He brought himself a new car and gave his wife his old car. That was love alright but it was love for himself. Not so with God, He loved not just one but everyone of us “the world.” Now if you are from somewhere like Mars or the Moon it may not mean you; but if you are from this world then you are loved by God. We have in writing, this is not hearsay. But something bad happened and it wasn’t your fault. Remember Adam and Eve? I’m sure you do. They disobeyed God and because they disobeyed it affected the whole world. Find that hard to believe? Well it's true. I’ll show you; what you and I do, good or bad it effectives others not just ourselves. What Adam and Eve did affected the whole human race. God's love made a way for each of us. You say why am I punished for what Adam and Eve did? Good question and here is the answer. 

Genesis 1:27 (KJV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Then Adam and Eve were told to multiply. 

Genesis 1:28 (KJV) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered and when Adam and Eve had children they were born sinners because that’s what their mother and Dad were. Because of Adam and Eve this world needed a Savior to redeem the human race. Just as John 3:16 reads “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God so loved, therefore He gave. God loved and gave for a purpose and the purpose was for what Adam and Eve did could be made right for you and I. You know what? God didn’t just leave us to hope that we have eternal life. Oh no we will know by two ways.

1 John 5:13 (KJV) These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Oh yes we have that in writing too. Webster says the word “Believe” means “To credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of something upon the declaration of another, or upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by other circumstances, than personal knowledge.”

When we believe something happens. What’s that? Guess what? We have that in writing too. 

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. When we believe, things change. Just as they did with Adam and Eve. Instead of running away from God we run toward God. We learn what Love is, why? Oh yeah we have that in writing too. 1 John 4:8 (KJV) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

When we know God we learn what real love is “God is love.”

🦹‍♀️Improve👩‍🏫

Listen to yourself, do you keep hearing the word can’t in your vocabulary? Then learn to say I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me. 

There are those who never improve themselves, they just learn to adjust. It’s a great excuse isn’t it? I don't think so. Why would a person be satisfied when they could improve themselves? In John chapter 5 we read of a man who had a sickness of some type like 38 years. Wow, that is a long time. We read that this man would go to a place that was known for its healing powers. Like everything else in life there were some requirements. It was first come first serve but it had to be at the right time; timing was everything. Now we read that this man had been sick for 38 years; not sure if he had been laying around waiting for the right time for 38 years. Just that he had been sick that long. One day Jesus came by and asked this man who knew without doubt he was sick. Jesus said “would you like to be made whole?” Wasn’t that what he was there for? Read his answer “I have no man to put me in the water when it’s trouble.” Think about this man for a moment. He is a man who knows he is sick. Believes he knows where to get help. He goes there and waits. He needs help, he is at the place where he can get help, but can’t because there is no one there to help. Then Jesus asked him a question 

John 5:6 (KJV) When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole? You think that sick man would have said yes, please. Read what he says; 

John 5:7 (KJV) The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

I don’t have any help. Someone always steps in front of me. You have worked hard for a promotion but someone else bigfoot steps right in front of you; almost, maybe next time. Jesus didn’t say “would you like for me to see what I can do?” No Jesus said “would you like to be made whole.” Jesus didn’t want to hear an answer with excuses. He just asked if he really wanted to be healed. Then Jesus told the man to get up and walk. I love what happened next. John 5:9 (KJV) And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

There are those today just like this sick man. They have tried Church and many have been sitting around waiting for a long time. They got involved, they gave and they have heard how others got help; but them, nothing. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, it's not the church just like it wasn’t the pool of Bethesda. Now the healing was found at the pool of Bethesda. It is not a pool or water that heals the sin sick, it’s the Blood of Christ. Has Jesus ever passed by? Have you ever heard that small still voice saying would you like to be made whole? Are you at Church listening for a small still voice. See that sick man that day had no doubt he was sick. He was on a search for help and when help came he had to obey, get up and walk. He did and from that day forward he was healed. I can’t express it enough that the enemy doesn’t want you to hear that small still voice. Oh no, he is happy where you are, confused. What Jesus does is not done over time, it's done immediately. I know that is hard for many to believe but it’s true and happens every time Jesus says come unto me and that person listens and obeys. I’m living proof. 

🤔Forget? I Don't Think So🥰

In Jesus we have forgiveness through his blood, even the forgiveness of our sins:

Luke 15:2 (KJV) And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.(Sinners)

The first thing I see is in the wording “This man (Jesus Christ) receiveth sinners” 

The second thing is that Jesus Christ is not too good to sit down with Sinners.

Jesus overheard the murmuring of the Pharisees and the scribes and gave them a word picture. Jesus looks at them and bringings it down to their level. Which of you having a 100 sheep and one of them went missing would not go looking for the one that was missing? Or would you just say well I still have 99 that’s not too bad.  No you would leave the 99 and go searching for the one that wandered off. You look and look until you find it. When you find it you place it upon your shoulders rejoicing. When you get back home you call your friends and others you know and you tell them the story and now all are rejoicing over one sheep that wandered off. 

Luke 15:4 (KJV) What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

Luke 15:5 (KJV) And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

Luke 15:6 (KJV) And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Then Jesus gives the meaning of what He just said. Luke 15:7 (KJV) I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Jesus said in a like manner there is joy in heaven over just one sinner that repents. Then Jesus says that there are 99 who need no repentance. Why? Because they look at themselves as being just. Wow! People are not sorry for their actions, they have no remorse, they have become hard hearted. Have we as a people come to this point that we are unwilling to forgive each other? We hear words like you just don’t know what they said to me and how it made me feel at the time. You have no idea or understanding how those words cut through me, I was so embarrassed. We have all been there and I will agree that those are very uncomfortable moments. Does that justify a lifetime of unforgiveness? I think not. Well how can I ever forget what they did? You may not be able to forget but God didn’t ask you to forget He asked us to forgive. I have heard many say that God has forgotten all our wrongs. Sounds good until you ask yourself what else has God forgotten? Read this verse 

Psalms 103:12 (KJV) As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

Removed or forgotten? 

Hebrews 8:12 (KJV) For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Hebrews 10:17 (KJV) And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

God says that I choose to forgive therefore I refuse to bring it up. Once upon a time I sold a table that my wife ask me not to. Boy was she upset with me and forgiveness was nowhere to be found. Then on top of that I was never paid for the table. Oh boy that was no help I couldn’t say “but look sweetheart we made money.” I had to forgive that man because we went to church together. I saw him every week at least 3 times. Did he forget to pay me for that table? Oh no he just chose not to remember. Our Heavenly Father will never say to us “you haven’t forgotten about that little problem you were having have you?” Oh no He hasn’t forgotten our Lord chooses not to remember when we repented. Think about it, God has not forgotten about anything and when we ask for forgiveness God says you are forgiven and we will never discuss this again. 

Hebrews 8:12 (KJV) For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Well there you go once again we have that in writing.

Well what about my wife? She forgave me. How do I know? She hasn’t said anything about that table in years. She has chosen no to remember. Well has she forgotten? What do you think? My answer would be NO! Oh no I just remembered about that table myself. See how we don’t forget! Forgiveness is not forgetting, it's a choice not to remember. 

Luke 15:7 (KJV) I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

When you and I get to heaven and we are introduced. God will not say “I would like everyone to meet; you can place your name here. Bob, the man that had that awful problem with….. That my friend will never happen. That is God Mercy. 

❓The Question How Can🙋‍♂️

Many saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why? 

Accepting without ever asking questions could cause one to accept without ever knowing the why.

Life is good and I'm still excited when I get up each morning. I love the morning. It's a great time to spend with the Lord. No one else in the house gets up when I do, like my dad also said “you are burning daylight son.” That means you are wasting the day. Most of the time I’m waiting for daylight. In my life I haven’t traveled a lot except when I was in the military finding myself in the air flying somewhere I didn’t want to go. There are places I wanted to go like the Grand Canyon which I did. Now I was reading my Bible which got me to think about life and places. It was in John chapter 3 and a man named Nicodemus. He asked Jesus using the phrase “how can” two times. In verse 4 Nicodemus said 

John 3:4 (KJV) Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Great question Nic. What if you and I could start over knowing what we know now, a whole new life. I’m interested in what Jesus told him. John 3:5 (KJV) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

John 3:6 (KJV) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

That which is flesh is flesh so that tells me that this flesh will never have its youth back. Tell me about this Spirit, is this something spookie like I might see on some sci fi program? Oh no it's not spookie but it is the real deal. We will have to go all the way back to the beginning, the book of Genesis. Here is the short form. God tells Adam not to eat the fruit of one tree but everything else it’s ok, eat as much as you want. If you do eat from the tree I told you not to, you will die! Die?  What is die? Well you know the story I’m sure if not go read the first 3 chapters in the book of Genesis. Well Adam and his help meet both took and had a bit under the leadership of the devil disguised as a serpent. When they did something happened the Bible reads 

Genesis 3:7 (KJV) And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

What happened? Genesis 2:17 (KJV) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Did you notice when they would die? “in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” Not 70 years later but that day, dead! But wait they didn’t drop dead that day so what died? Great question. You and I are just like Nicodemus. We were born into this world condemned, because that which we need to have fellowship with our Heavenly Father is dead. 

John 4:24 (KJV) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Just like Nicodemus, we need to have our spirit reborn within us so we can truly worship God. 

🤔Do You Remember👍

Sin always fascinates, but then it assassinates.

A novel written by Charles Monroe Shelton published in 1896 and has sold more than 50 thousand copies. The name of the novel was “In His Steps.” So far I can tell by the confused looks on your faces that; ok, how or what has that got to do with me? Nothing! Until you look at the cover of the novel and then the 1990’s come rushing back into your memory. In big letters on the cover of the book we read IN HIS STEPS then under that title we read these words “what would Jesus do?”  You remember those words? I’m sure you do. They were everywhere we saw them every day. Oh but those words are nowhere to be found in the Bible you say. No they are not but the principle is Proverbs 3:6 (KJV) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

In all thy ways acknowledge, what would Jesus do? and He shall direct your paths. In other words, think before you step, speak and spend your time. David said Psalms 26:2 (KJV) Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Psalms 139:23 (KJV) Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

I wonder why David was asking God those questions? Remember the one sinner that repented? Then there were 99 that didn’t see the need to do any repenting. Do we even know what displeases our Heavenly Father? Do we have the attitude that I don’t really have sin in my life? Do we  say things like God made me this way therefore I do what He made me to do. Well if that’s the case then I can see why there is no repenting. We have become so comfortable with sin that it has become a normal way of life. Television, music and real life; sin has just been accepted. Four letters words we hear everyday of our life. Watch TV and here they go into the bedroom to commit adultery. Then they let us go in so there is no doubt. Then in real life, divorce is happening and we hear the words I just want to be happy. This being happy we miss because we are looking in all the wrong places. The Queen of Sheba heard about the wisdom of Solomon and came to see for herself. What did she see? That the words she heard were sure and this is what she said. 1 Kings 10:7 (KJV) Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

 1 Kings 10:8 (KJV) Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

Maybe we are looking for happiness in the wrong places. The woman that had been married 5 times and was now living in a wrongful relationship with man number 6. That story is recorded for us in John chapter four. She didn’t see her sin, she just wanted to be happy. She wasn’t happy until Jesus showed up at the well and began to speak with her. When the conversation was over she left her water pots and ran back into the city, a very happy woman. Why is that? Here is what Jesus told her John 4:10 (KJV) Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

She learned that day that human relationships will not make you happy. On that day she found out that the gift of God and a relationship with Jesus Christ will trill your heart to the point you have to run to tell others. Her problem was she was drinking from the wrong fountain. Trust in the Lord asks the question, What Would Jesus Do?