THE STORY OF JESUS: Matthew 17:14-21
“Because you have so little faith.” (Matthew 17:20)
I have a confession to make… my faith is not very strong.
If all we need to move mountains is a mustard seed faith, then my faith is a quark (look it up).
This is not something I am proud of, but I don’t want to deny it either.
I’ve had people rebuke me for it, saying that I cannot please God without faith (Hebrews 11:6).
But I never said I had NO faith, just that I had a really really small faith.
In this instance, the disciples failed to do what they done on other occasions (heal someone).
Their problem was “Because you have so little faith!”, and this makes me feel a little better.
They were WITH Jesus, they had seen Him do great miracles, and had performed some themselves.
Their faith was still little… and yet He worked with them, and encouraged them with God’s love.
To all who like me admit your faith has a long way to go, a long way to grow, take heart!
Even I have the potential, with my tiny tiny mustard seed faith, to do the impossible with God.
I will fail, I will miss opportunities, but He will keep putting up with me, to the very end!
Because in the end, my hope is not in the size of my faith but in the size of my God.
Little faith plus big God equals immeasurably more than all I ask or imagine!
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, I say it not because I always believe it, but because You said it: Nothing will be impossible for me, when my little faith is supported by Your great love!