Humpty Dumpty

  Proverbs 3:7

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.

We've all heard this nursery rhyme before; 

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 together again.

Fairytales suggested that Humpty Dumpty was an egg that met his demise after falling off a wall. I'd like to believe he was but a fragile mortal human being that allowed his pride to sit himself up too high for his heart to handle so he fell. 

I believe one of the most dangerous things a believer can do is to become wise in his/her own eyes. To become obese in the head yet anorexic in the heart when it comes to the things of God. 
There are a lot of people who know God very well, in their heads. Their expansive knowledge of Him gives them the confidence to point the biggest skeptic out and make them a believer (I stole that last part from a Drake lyric ha!) They have an impeccable hold on apologetics or in other words as Wikipedia defines it, the religious discipline of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse. However their greatest strength is indeed their greatest weakness. 

The enemy is coming after these people so tough in this season because they're easy targets. All he has to do is wound them in the heart and they're as good as dust or the charred remains you scrape off of the bottom of a grill after a barbecue. 

They can give you multiple definitions of a Jezebel but will not be able to recognize this spirit if it spit them in their face. They will turn into snares to other men and women of God throwing javelins in their pathways. They can argue the next man up and down about their sin or error but let something prick their unattended hearts, it's a wrap! Temptation will come in so easily to offend their walk in God.                   

Bloated in knowledge will not secure your relationship with God. It's because having the knowledge of God but no heart for or in God causes spiritual blindness and spiritual deafness. It causes your views and perceptions of Him to be distorted and lopsided to some degree. There's a lot of people who have made an idol out of what they know by not allowing God to actually reign in their hearts where they know Him intimately. This was the exact issue with the Pharisees and Sadducees and this is what separated them from Jesus. 

The Pharisees and Sadducees were not illiterate or fundamentally dumb, they just had no real relationship with the heart of God and thus did not know Him from Adam when He showed up. You will also notice that throughout the Bible there was no evidence of these men doing anything but arguing, critiquing, and practically everything irrelevant in between. It's because one can't possibly operate in the active power of God solely based off of the intellectual contents of the mind. Without the heart, it will just look like someone trying to connect something up to an outlet without the prongs on the cord! And there you'll have it, humpty dumpty sitting on this great wall he made out of his own wisdom and probably a piece of knowledge away from falling. 

Isaiah 5:21

What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eyes and think themselves so clever.

I encourage you to become well versed on the things of God (lest you want a PhD in ignorance) yet while in conjunction with aggressively ensuring that your heart isn't straying from God Himself.  We must not focus so much on stuffing our brains that we neglect our hearts. We must guard our hearts! When your mental capacity and your heart's capacity is married in God, you will have wisdom that can not only be used to win arguments with men, but moreso to win battles against the enemy. 

You will have the ability to recognize when the enemy is coming in like a flood. You will have the ability to know when the enemy is trying to sift you as wheat. You will have the ability to know when you're being seduced, swindled, or wooed. This is having wisdom and discernment which is the result of a mind and heart subdued in God. Having wisdom with no discernment is like having a gun with blanks. 

Listen, this post is not to offend. It's to warn you of a potential scheme of the enemy on the horizon. It's subtle and seemingly inconspicuous but it's taking people out left and right. I've been seeing the enemy wreak havoc on the hearts of men and women who were too rich in the head to be poor in the spirit; prime candidates for unwarranted warfare. I'm not exempt either! I've found myself literally clutching my heart like a quarterback holding a football running to make a touchdown! 

#Sidebar I must have blessed up this past weekend and secured a registration to receive personal prophetic ministry at my church. I was eager because the last personal word I received from someone as it pertains to me was last year and I don't care how prophetic I am, sometimes I need a push from somewhere else. Anyway, the word did just that affirmed and pushed me. It also frightened me. The last thing I was told was that I will have great wisdom. I grabbed my invisible pearls because the wisdom I've gathered up to now came with some hellish experiences and painful sacrifices. But to whom much is given much is required I guess. Since then, I've had to deliberately holdfast my heart as I brace myself to come into more wisdom. I really don't feel like snoozing and playing with this thing! 

Let's not be needless casualties of war because we refuse to do something so simple as to govern our hearts accordingly as we become more knowledgeable mentally. 

The most prideful and even religious people are those who are stuffed in the mind but starving in the heart. God forbid they meet a crisis, they are some of the most hardest people to deliver out of, intercede and pray for, and/or counsel. They will attempt to KNOW their way out of a thing before accepting help especially from God. #Tragic 

Please don't allow this to happen to you. If you're reading this and you feel like you have some humpty dumpty ways about yourself, good! We caught it! All you need to do is grab hold of your mind and tie it to your heart while it's being drafted by God and injected with worship. It'd be difficult for the mind to float away into pride and self-adoration of one's own cleverness if it's anchored by a worshipper's heart.