Ecclesiastes3:1, 3b “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:  a time to tear down and a time to build”.

Proverbs 25:28 “Like a city whose walls are broken through, is a person who lacks self-control”.

Most of us, if not all of us, have heard of the infamous Humpty Dumpty who sat on the great wall and had the great fall.  Maybe some of us perhaps have even asked, ‘Why was Humpty Dumpty on the wall in the first place?  An egg sitting on a great wall quite comfortably is an egg that has not considered his fragile state of being’. 

While we may laugh at Humpty’s fall, there are times we  behave like Humpty, i.e.,   sitting quite comfortably on the great wall totally forgetting where we are until we find ourselves sailing through the air on our way to being smashed to pieces at the bottom of that great wall. Wow! Can you just imagine yourself sailing through the air knowing that you are on your way to self-destruction? How would you feel? I often wonder what was the great wall in Humpty’s life that would cause him to be so comfortable that he forgot where he was and who he was?  Was it a wall of friendship built by trust?  Was it a trap designed to lure him to that wall and keep him there until he lost his sense of self?  The theories are endless. 

It is said that hindsight is twenty-twenty vision.  So today we are going to learn from Humpty’s wall experience and evaluate the walls in our lives.

What are the walls in our lives? Are there walls made from trust and friendship? Walls that form barriers between us and our neighbours? Walls that provide security? Have we analysed their foundations and relevance?  What great walls in our lives that we need to tear down? Do we need to rebuild, reinforce and/or build?  Here are a few examples. Some walls are like Jericho’s high fortified walls (Deu. 3:5) that stand between us and the promise land and can only be torn down when God sends His troops to dismantle them and their destruction is dependent on us following specific instructions, no more no less.  Other walls in our lives have been ruined by the generations before, but like Nehemiah we are called to repent, relocate and rebuild the wall despite great opposition (Ezra 4:12).  Some walls are Divine walls of protection, concealment, revelation and transformation. These act as God’s shield around us in times of great distress (2 Kings 16:17) to prevent us from becoming like Humpty.  They can only be seen when the Lord open our spiritual eyes.  The type of walls in our lives are endless.

In order to discern the type of walls we have in our lives requires us taking time to examine ourselves, our souls, bodies and spirits, practicing self-control and spending time in prayer with the Master receiving His divine instructions.  There is a time and a season for everything and this is the season to examine the walls in our lives and take the appropriate actions.

What are the walls in your life that you need to tear down and what walls do you need to rebuild, build or reinforce?  Where in your life do you need special divine “wall” covering for your great distress?

Stop and think on your life and let us call on the name of Jesus our Fortified Wall and tower.

PRAYER

Lord Jesus we come to you asking you to show what walls need to be torn down, built, rebuilt and/or reinforced in our lives.  We are afraid.   We have trusted in man-made walls instead of in You our Divine covering and Fortified wall of protection.  Forgive us where we have failed you and help us in this season of our lives to discern where You want to take us.  In Jesus name Amen.