Early in the morning as Jesus was returning to the city, he was hungry. He saw a fig tree along the road, but when he came to it, he found nothing except leaves. Then he said to it, “You’ll never again bear fruit!” The fig tree dried up at once. When the disciples saw it, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree dry up so fast?” they asked. Jesus responded, “I assure you that if you have faith and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree. You will even say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the lake.’ And it will happen. If you have faith, you will receive whatever you pray for.” (Matthew 21:18-22, CEB)
I always get caught up on these passages. If you have faith and don’t doubt you will make the fig tree wither and the mountain move.
Well, I assure you I can do neither of these. Although I might kill a plant or two or ten with a black thumb. I am no gardener. But I have never looked at a fig tree and told it to wither and it withered, or told a mountain to move and it moved. Does that mean I am lacking in faith or full of doubt?
I will say there are times in my life when I know I lack faith. And there are times in my life when I am full of doubt. However, I do not believe either of these are factors in whether or not God is with me. God is big enough to walk with me in my lack of faith and through all the doubt I have.
So never see these if you have faith passages as saying your life is not enough. You are enough. Just as God made you. In your lack of faith and over achieving doubt. You are enough.
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