Enough Faith

Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”-Matthew 17:20


Have you ever read Bible stories like the one about Peter walking on the water or about Jesus telling us we can move mountains and feel guilty about not having enough faith to do these things? Time and again we hear stories about needing to have "enough faith" to do something.   So we try to harder to believe.  We try to push doubt from our mind.  And still, the mountains don't move and our feet still sink.


But we've also been taught that it is only through the power of the Holy Spirit that we can have any faith at all.    Really?  Then how are we supposed to conjure up more faith if the size of our faith is not up to us in the first place?  But remember, Jesus said that it takes only a mustard seed-sized faith to move a mountain.  So it really has nothing to do with *how much* faith we have.


No, it is not the *amount* of faith that matters at all, but *in whom* we have placed that faith.  Our perceived failures happen when that faith is placed in ourselves... when we believe that *I* should be able to walk on water or *I* should be able to move the mountain.  God working through us is the only way we are able to surpass our own expectations and limits.  It is not our faith that allows us to walk on water, but our faith in God that allows him to hold us up in that impossible situation.


Think of the times you have walked on water or moved a mountain in your life.  Was it really you?  Or was it God working through you?  If you had not faith that God would do it, would it have happened?


Mustard seed faith is all you need, as long as it is directed upward, not inward.


Lord Jesus,
Though my faith is small, help me to directed it always toward you so that you can work in big ways through me.  Amen.


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