The Garden of Faith

Wednesday, June 22

The Garden of Faith

So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. Matthew 17:20

I have to admit I have always felt a bit condemned by this verse. Why? Because a mustard seed is very small, and it seemed to me that Jesus was saying that the disciples, and that would obviously include you and me, were unable to muster even the most miniscule amount of faith? I concluded that since not many mountains seem to have moved recently we would surely all get ‘D’ on our record cards for ‘Faith’. But now that I am older I read this verse a different way. I see it as saying, if only I could muster up even a little-itsy bit of faith that God can move, then He will.

You see, our small seed of faith is enough to cause enormous miracles when we put our small seed into the hands of the Heavenly Gardener, and He puts that little seed into the right atmosphere for the full potential to be released. As long as we have some faith – however small – God can use it. If we trust in Him and His mountain-moving power then even our small seed of faith can be enough to achieve His great miracles.

Prayer for today: Heavenly Father, thank You for Your great love and faithfulness. Thank You that we don’t have to strive to produce miracles. We just have to learn to trust Your hands. Use the little seed we offer for Your purposes, dear Lord, in Jesus’ mighty name we pray. Amen.