Dropped, Hurt, Crippled, But Redeemed By The King!"

His nurse was there with him from day one, when he was born. She tended to him, she helped bath him, she helped feed him, she changed his diapers, she was there when he was sick, she helped to teach him to walk, and when he took his first steps and when he wanted to go outside she was there pushing him on the swing, and playing hide and seek and duck, duck, goose. This nurse, was not a stranger this nurse was someone that loved him and cared for him as one of her own. One cannot fault the nurse for she had good intentions. She was trying to save his life.

Because she knew that when Saul and Johnathan being dead, that they would come and kill Mephibosheth because he was heir to the throne. She picked him up and fled with him and the chaos of fleeing she dropped him. She made a mistake, she wasn’t a stranger, she was a friend.

He may not have completely understood what was happening at the time, but he knew that something was desperately wrong in the palace.

He received the news that both his father and his grandfather had died. His home was shattered. He had no father to guide him, no grandfather to shower him with love and affection. Who would take care of him? Who would feed him, clothe him, or put him to bed at night? Imagine how alone he must have felt. Imagine the pain of the memory of his father and grandfather. Imagine the insecurity of no more home that he could call his own.

Many, many out there today are suffering spiritually wounded and made lame by one who hurt them.

Hurt in church is the biggest excuse I hear for not serving God. In all probability they were hurt by someone who really intended to help them but something ran a foul.

The nurse never intended to drop Mephibosheth! In fact, she saved his life but in the process he was made lame.

But there is not a word about Mephibosheth becoming ill and bitter toward the nurse. To many times, we have excuses why we don’t live for God. Someone hurt our feelings, someone said something wrong, someone did something, the preacher done something that you didn’t agree with, the praise team sang a song you didn’t like, someone did this or someone done that. Your husband doesn’t want to live for God, or get his lazy carcass up on a Sunday morning so you want to stay home with him for family time, or your wife got her feelings hurt so now it’s affected the whole family. You won’t quit going to your job and punching that clock, because you can’t stand half the people you work with, because you know you going to get a paycheck come Friday. You won’t stop going to family reunions and get together, and you can’t stand half your family and they have hurt your feelings a bunch a times.

He can’t walk for the rest of his life, because of someone else. He has to have help to the bathroom, someone has to work and provide for him. Someone has to help cloth him and help him through life because he was Dropped and Hurt, and Crippled!!!!

He can’t jump up and run and play with the other kids, he can’t play hide and seek no more, he can’t play on the swings or run over the hills, or be in the kingdom any longer because he is crippled! He is hurt! He was dropped! He is now disabled! He is relying on someone else to carry him!!!