John 6:11 “And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.”

John 6:12 “When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.”

Hello readers, I hope you have been going well wherever you are. Today I want to talk about “no lost fragments” with Jesus Christ.

This scripture has been a real comfort to me of late, and I believe it applies in many different ways, including my own personal life.

John 6 contains the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, where Jesus fed the multitude with five loaves and two fishes. And not just two fishes, but two SMALL fishes the Bible says!

Not just two fishes Lord, but two SMALL fishes, as if to emphasize the impossibility of it to Jesus! Have you ever emphasized the impossibility of the impossible to God? Turns out every miracle of God, and the Christian life is a miracle, tackles impossibility by faith.

These five loaves and two fishes… What are they among so many? Well more than enough as it turned out, because there was a lot left over after everyone had eaten their fill!

When I first starting thinking about this miracle and “no lost fragments”, I firstly thought about no lost fragments as it relates to the word of God itself.

We are in a time where many people do not believe that God has been able to keep and preserve his words. Many do not believe that with God there are no lost fragments. But I do, and I believe the Authorized King James Bible has no lost fragments.

And it’s amazing how when Jesus broke the bread… just how far it went. You know, whenever I speak to Bible believing Christians who love the Lord, it’s incredible how everyone is drawing value from the Bible, and yet the Bible is never exhausted!

You’d think the Bible would lose it’s value, every other book on earth you read does, and yet the Bible only gets more and more valuable and as new and abundant everyday as his mercies are to us.

How could one book go so far? But it’s not just any other book, it stands alone, to whom else shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life! It is the book of life, it is how God communicates to us, it is how the Holy Spirit births us, feeds us and leads the born again child of God.

And so no matter how many people draw from it, yet it is not diminished from, wore out, or needing of upgrade. It is enough, more than enough! for everyone.

And there are no lost fragments. Just like one jot or tittle will not pass from the law until all be fulfilled, not a single word of God will fail. There’s no missing keystroke, there’s no little mistranslation, there’s no truth or doctrine or detail lost in time.

And if God’s word will never fail, if no fragment is lost, then he or she who believes on it will never be lost either! You know, our preservation is tied to God’s preservation of his word.

And I’ve been thinking how amazing it truly is, what a miracle it truly is that after all the persecution and corruption of the word of God… that we still have it, and 100% of it!

Every fragment is present, every word accounted for. And this has been a source of great comfort, because I don’t have a God that loses his word, and because of that… he also doesn’t lose me.

Sometimes I can feel like my life is in fragments and fragments of my life and even great big pieces have slipped through his fingers… but they haven’t.

There’s been things in my life that I thought God missed, or that I’ve thought have been lost, does Satan ever point back and say well what about that there and there? Where was your God there? Maybe you look back through your life and you think there are a lot of lost fragments.

But God hasn’t lost a thing. If you have committed your life unto him, if you are truly in Christ Jesus… well, it is well, it shall be well… because not a singular fragment, not the most infinitesimally small piece is lost!

I’ve recently been thinking about this verse recently in relation to this thought about no lost fragments… Genesis 37:34  “And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.”

The context of this verse is that Jacob, the father of Joseph, has just seen his son’s bloody coat that his sons have brought to him, and he and his imagination have come to the obvious, logical and scientific conclusion that his son is “in pieces”.

And it has a terrible effect on him, as you can imagine. Just read the next verse, this man goes into the worst spiral, and just put yourself in his place, his hopes and dreams have just been shattered into a million pieces… which he cannot hope to put back together!

How bad is our imagination! And how wrong our thinking can be when we take our eyes off Jesus and what God has said in his word! But oftentimes the evidence of what we are seeing in our life, our reality, can be very compelling against faith in God’s word… can’t it.

Joseph had been given a dream, a vision from God for his life, but for many years that dream seemingly lay in a billion million pieces. How could you put all the pieces back together? Well he couldn’t, you couldn’t, and I can’t. It takes a power far beyond us.

You know, when something breaks into a lot of pieces, it’s hard to ever restore it to the original isn’t it. If you’ve ever dropped a glass and it’s shattered… it’s done isn’t it. Is that how you feel about your lot in life right now?

But God cares about the fragments! For Jacob, all he had, he thought, was lost fragments. But see how his case turned out, it turned out not a fragment was lost!

If your hope is in Christ, if you have committed your way unto him, know that Jesus does care, and he will not lost any part of your and your life, whatever it is.

If you are truly saved, nothing about you will ever be lost. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Maybe you have been looking back and thinking God never answered that, he never heard that, God forgot me here and there and there.

Maybe you’re missing pieces. Maybe there are lost pieces of time, lost pieces of prayers, and lost pieces of a heart that did desire to follow God …

Know that with God, the story is not yet finished. Jacob didn’t know it yet, but the story was not finished. In fact it was just part of a much greater story being written.

Jacob wrote the story in his head based on his imagination, but Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, had already penned the real story, and finished it. And Jacob would see all those lost pieces, all those shattered fragments of broken hopes and dreams all restored better than new when he one day heard that Joseph is alive and kicking in Egypt!

God will turn those fragments with him into your salvation, just wait and see… as Jacob saw! Trust God with all the seemingly hopelessly lost fragments of your life, and you will know that Jesus does care about fragments, and that with Jesus, NOTHING is lost.

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