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Mustard Seed (1/25/13)

Read: Exodus 2:11-3:22, Matthew 17:10-27, Psalm 22:1-18, Proverbs 5:7-14

“You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” (Matthew 17:20)

mustard tree

Relate: I remember going to a conference when I was a student at Central Bible College. Tommy Barnett was doing a leadership thing and Nixa Assembly was sending its ministry team to hear him. He was speaking on faith, I don’t remember the specifics, but at the end everyone was to write their dream on this little piece of paper then go up and leave it at the altar and pick up this mustard seed in exchange.

Up to that point I’d never seen a mustard seed before. I knew conceptually that they were small. I’d been told so in countless Sunday School classes. But this little seed was tiny. I’d say it’s less than half the size of the little bullets you use in a BB gun. On the flip side I knew that mustard trees were a pretty good size. I saw them on those Sunday School flannel graphs. That, up top, is a mustard tree. That grows out of a seed that is less than two millimeters in diameter.

React: There are different gifts given to different people in the church. Some people have faith. I can look at them, listen to them, and I am amazed. I’m more of a “trust, but verify” type of guy. You might say my faith is as small as a mustard seed. Good thing that is enough. I remember there used to be a magazine called Mountain Movers. It was chuck full of miracle stories of missionaries in other parts of the world. Each of those stories seemed to have two things in common, the missionary needed, God provided. There would come a point when a missionary realized they couldn’t possibly do what needed done, and then God would step in. Sometimes it was protection, sometimes provision, sometimes healing, always God would move.

I don’t need a lot of faith to see God do the miraculous in my life. All I need it to attempt the impossible. If I am always doing what is easy, if I am always living in the safe and the comfortable, I will never see a miracle. There won’t be any need. It is only when I step out that I will see Him step in. If I want to see Him move in big ways, I need to take my tiny faith and attempt big things with it. It will grow, but only when planted.

Respond: [videoembed type=”youtube” width=”600″ height=”400″ url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOU1JiFCmHI” id=”0″]

God, help me to trust You. I don’t have much faith, help make the little that I have to grow. Let me be used by You wherever and whenever You desire.