Broken Pieces

John 6:35 Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. 36But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

While in church Sunday, I was listening to Pastor Bryan and he was reading the scriptures Matthew 14:13-21 which speaks about Jesus feeding 5 thousand with only 5 loaves and 2 fish. While I was reading I saw a little more into the scriptures with the guidance of the Holy Spirit of course.
Matthew 14:15As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a remote place, and it's already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food."
16Jesus replied, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."
17"We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish," they answered.
18"Bring them here to me," he said. 19And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
John 6:12When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted."

Disciple is defined as this

1.Religion.
a. one of the 12 personal followers of Christ.
b. one of the 70 followers sent forth by Christ. Luke 10:1.
c. any other professed follower of Christ in His lifetime.

2. any follower of Christ.

The way I read the verse was not that the disciples just went and were the "clean up crew"... but that they went out after Jesus fed the people and they were the ones who gathered up the pieces left over. So when Jesus gives the bread of life to people.... the disciples of Christ (you and I) should go out after and "gather the broken pieces". Gather up the pieces of broken lives, broken people and put them back together using God's word and teachings. If we all would be there ready to pick up the broken pieces and help them.....so that nothing would be lost. We could make such a change!