Christ Can Build from Broken Pieces

Readings 050526 

I learned a new term today: noetic fragmentation—
a mind scattered into pieces,
a world that no longer sees the whole,
a Church broken into rites and denominations,
tempted in that brokenness to forget
the One who holds all things together.

Knowledge without wisdom.
Information without formation.
Noise without the Shepherd’s voice.

This is the wound of our time.
This is the wound in the Body of Christ.

In these fractures we lose sight of God.
We skew the truth of Christ.
Many are remaking God in their own image,
picking and choosing the Word
as if the Gospel were a buffet
instead of the truth that saves.

And yet—
Christ is still building.

He speaks into our fragmentation:
“Peace I leave with you;
my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives.”
A peace not manufactured,
not curated,
not downloaded—
but breathed from His pierced side.

The world offers distraction,
but little illumination.
Voices everywhere,
but little wisdom.
Therapy without asceticism,
rights without repentance,
religion without theoria—
a spirituality that never kneels,
never listens,
never beholds.

But Christ is still building.

They stoned Paul
and dragged him outside the city,
thinking he was dead.
But when the disciples gathered around him,
he rose.
He walked back into the very place
that tried to silence him.

This is what Christ does with a broken world.
This is what He does with a broken Church.
This is what He does with broken people.
He raises.
He rebuilds.
He returns us to the mission.

“It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships
to enter the Kingdom of God.”
Not because God delights in suffering,
but because the Kingdom is born
where the old world cracks open
and grace pours through.

Our age is poor in stillness,
but Christ is not.
Our age is fractured,
but Christ is whole.
Our age is confused,
but Christ is the Truth
that gathers all things back into Himself.

And so the Church—
even wounded, divided, distracted—
is not abandoned.
She is being rebuilt
stone by living stone,
heart by listening heart,
mind by mind returning to the Shepherd.

Christ is still building.
In the ruins.
In the noise.
In the fragmentation.
In the very places we fear He has left.

He has not left.
He is gathering.
He is healing.
He is making whole.

And He whispers again to His scattered flock:
Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
My peace is still yours.
My Kingdom is still coming.
And I am still building you into it.

Prayer

Lord Jesus, 

Gather my scattered mind into Your peace.
Heal the fractures within Your Church and within my heart.
Speak Your wisdom into the noise that surrounds me.
Raise what has fallen and rebuild what has been wounded.
Make me a living stone in Your Kingdom’s work.
Keep me close to the Shepherd who makes all things whole.

Amen