When they came to the crowd, a man met Jesus. He knelt before him, saying, “Lord, show mercy to my son. He is epileptic and suffers terribly, for he often falls into the fire or the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.” Jesus answered, “You faithless and crooked generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Then Jesus spoke harshly to the demon. And it came out of the child, who was healed from that time on. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and said, “Why couldn’t we throw the demon out?” “Because you have little faith,” he said. “I assure you that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Go from here to there,’ and it will go. There will be nothing that you can’t do.” (Matthew 17:14-21, CEB)
I have gone back and forth on this verse.
Jesus answered the man after the disciples couldn’t cast out the demon by saying, “You faithless and crooked generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I put up with you?” Was this about all people or the disciples being faithless? Because later Jesus tells the disciples, “I assure you that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Go from here to there,’ and it will go. There will be nothing that you can’t do.” Which we usually hear as they don’t have enough faith. But is that what Jesus is saying?
If you had the faith the size of a mustard seed, which is a very little bit you could move mountains, but do we really need to move mountains by telling them to move? Plus that would be a little strange to see mountains moving all the time because I know if I could make mountains move, I would be doing it.
The faith we have is enough to do what we need to do.
Don’t look for more. Trust and believe God is always with you.
Loving People. Loving God.
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