A mustard seed eh...

Last week I had one of those light bulb moments, that kind of time that you just stop and have a big “OOHHH” moment. I was reading through Numbers where Moses sends out the 12 spies to check out the promise land. The paragraph that I read about that section of the bible was the cause for the “oh” moment. What it said was simply this. “ Caleb didn’t have great faith in God, He had faith in a great God” suddenly it hit me, “faith as a mustard seed”! it makes sense! Faith as a mustard seed actually makes sense! I feel a bit stupid admitting to this, but honestly that verse in Mathew never made sense to me. Yes, after 4 years of Youth for Jesus training (one month a year), after going through most of Witness for Life which included ARISE, after a year of bible working, yes even after teaching how to bible work, now teaching the bible here in Africa, after being a Christian for about 5 years, that verse just didn’t click with my mind. But it has finally become senseacal to me. Lets put it this way, if you have infinity and you divide it in half how much of that infinity is left? Well… infinity is still left. You can’t divide infinity and get anything less then infinity, it’s a mathematical and philosophical impossibility. When you divide infinity by anything the end result will still always be infinity! So, if you have an infinitesimal faith in an infinite God, even say as a mustard seed, as long as that faith is in a Great and infinite God that faith is still adequate, to say the least! When we take the burden of needing to have some mighty and impressive faith off of us, and we put the burden of being mighty and impressive on the One who already is, it just makes so much more sense. God doesn’t call us to have great faith, rather He calls us to have faith that He is great! Faith as a mustard seed!

And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. Mathew 17:20