Lord increase my faith! Lord add to my faith!
The Apostles, the ones who are sent asked for their master to add to their faith, not to give them faith, or make them better, but add to our faith…
Jesus replies that if they had the faith the size of a mustard seed. Mustard a weed. A non kosher plant. Something that would not have been allowed in a Jewish garden, yet something they would have known about… The smallest of all seeds, Jesus says that if our faith was as big as the smallest of all seeds, we could tell a tree to uproot itself and move into the ocean. And just what happens to this tree? Does it die in the ocean? We do not know, however we can assume since Jesus told us we could do this that the tree would continue to live, in the ocean. How rediculus is that, a tree growing in the middle of the ocean. Something growing someplace that it should not be, and thriving with life. What a dream come true! If we could only have the faith the size of a mustard seed, oh the dreams we could dream and they would come true! But we do not, we seek for Jesus to add to our faith, but he says we when we have done all that was commended, we will say we are worthless slaves and have done only what we ought to have done. Which is all we need to do! We have done what we ought, and that is what is expected. Do not think you should have done more, or you could have done more. I remember a wise man once told me we should and could ourselves to death. We are doing enough, and are using the faith we have and need not worry about having or doing more. And because we think we have not done enough, or are good enough, we call ourselves worthless slaves, yet are we truly worthless? Look what God did for us, remember the cross if you ever think you are worthless. Jesus died on the cross for the sins of the whole world, and if it would have only been me that was a sinner, he would of done the cross just the same. And if you were the only sinner, Jesus would have died on the cross for you! You are worht the blood of Jesus, the life of the son of God, none of us are worthless. A rich treasure was paid for each and everyone of us. Live in the faith you have, the faith that through grace has brought you into a living loving mercyfilled relationship with God, the faithfullness of Jesus to die on the tree, to allow his love to fall upon us, and shed his body and blood to give us a glorious reminder of his love and help us remember we are not worthless, and are doing our part.
Faith the size of a mustard seed in my mind is faith the size of Texas, yet the faith I have, if the faith I have received from Jesus, and it is sufficant for today, and his love has covered us all, and flows to us in our times of need. Love God, and remember what was done to allow you to be named and claimed by God, heir to the kingdom!
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