Piercing The Darkness

Anyone who has read the news lately would surely agree that our world is broken.

Bombings. Plane crashes. Earthquakes. Poverty. War. Suicide. Racism. Corruption. Sexual abuse.

It’s everywhere, this darkness.

We see it on our Facebook feeds. Voices subconsciously crying out for change, for relief. Desperate to live in freedom, not fear. Desperate for peace in a world that was born chaotic.

I think all will agree that our world is broken, but no one is quite sure how to fix it. How do you save a world that thrives off of the same poison that’s killing it? How do you fix a fractured society that’s made up of broken people?

We want to fight for the light to pierce the darkness. For love, truth, justice, (and the American way). For hope and restoration.

But our world is more than just broken; it is deeply, inherently flawed. We will never have perfect justice, a perfect government or a perfect world. Because our world is made up of painfully imperfect people (i.e. me)—and we live every day in the consequence of that.

Our world was originally created perfect. It was created in wholeness, but broken by us. By our selfishness. By us wanting what we wanted, not what was God's best.

And try as hard as we might, no matter how loudly we yell or what law we pass or how many guns are confiscated—we can’t change that. We can’t heal a world that was broken long before any of us was born.

But one by one, the broken people of this broken world can be healed. Our shattered souls can be stitched back together by a God who is Wholeness itself. The God who has seen us at our worst, has looked into our broken hearts—and loves us fully. Who chooses to save us.

So, yes, we fight for things to be made right. But more than that, we fight for wholeness.

Let us look past ourselves to the billions of souls who are searching for the light. Searching for the answer to their scars and anger and pain. Trying to find a way to be whole.

Because in Jesus we have the answer. We have the only light that can pierce the oppressive darkness of our shattered world. This God who can mend the hurting, wipe away tears, turn fear into joy and peace— He is within us.

We won’t have all the answers for all the broken things in our world, but this I do know:

If we reach out to the forgotten ones, to those living in darkness, and bring a message of hope that can heal and truth that can save, then maybe we will start to see a healing far beyond anything we could dream.

Maybe then we would see hurting hearts begin to heal. Broken souls made whole. God restoring and renewing and reviving in the way that only he can.

Yes, we live in a shattered world, but it’s in the darkest night that the light will shine the brightest. And as broken people begin to find wholeness in Christ, then maybe our broken world will begin to find healing too.