“You didn't have enough faith," Jesus told
them. “I assure you, even if you had faith 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." Matt. 17:20 (NLT)
When Jesus talked about the
seed of mustard as a level of faith, He wasn’t talking more about the littleness
of the seed than He was talking literally about a mountain. Instead, He was
making an analogy of the size of the plant to which the mustard seed grows to
when it is planted.
The Mustard Seed,
though one of the smallest plant seeds known produces one of the largest plants
documented. It is a wonder of the soil, how the minuteness of the mustard seed
brings about such gigantic structure exemplified by the plant.
In like manner, it is
expected that our faith, for which we receive things from God, is planted, watered, tendered and taken care of until like the mustard
plant, it grows to yield such great faith which has the capabilities to move
mountains and to uproot deep-sited trees. O the wonder of the Mustard Faith.
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