“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.”
It comes almost the thought: "this is not possible!" Unfortunately, these Scriptures, in principle, always arouse doubt and unbelief.
This verse is not about a great faith, but a great achievement!After all, what faith is this, which may have an effect as impressive as the displacement of a tree? Is it an immense faith, that does not see obstacles, and that is in a sovereign way beyond anything that crosses its path? A faith that moves trees of course could have such characteristics. But the Lord Jesus does not speak of a faith like that. This faith that can do great deeds, the Lord Jesus calls a faith as a mustard seed .
What is a grain of mustard? In Mark 4:31, it is called "... the smallest of all seeds on earth."
What is a grain of mustard? In Mark 4:31, it is called "... the smallest of all seeds on earth."
Why did Jesus takes just that little mustard seed as an example for a faith by which great things can happen? Maybe, because that little grain in one year becomes a large shrub, a small tree with branches of 2 to 3 meters. I understand that this “ faith as a mustard seed" points clearly to our faith, which is often weak and small…But this little faith, so small and insignificant, is the minimum requirement to do great things. So we must change the way we think! Because, in other words, our faith doesn’t need to be particularly great, but just to have faith is enough.
If the mustard seed had the opportunity to look at itself and see if it could, it would have everything to lose heart, because in itself it would have nothing to present. And so it is often in our lives: we look inside us and see a faith relatively small, limited, and then become discouraged. But the mustard seed does not. It does not look at itself and then give up. No, it simply let be planted in the ground, there begins to rise, and finally becomes what it should be, a tree whose branches "nested in the birds of heaven" (Luke 13:19).
At the same time, pay attention that the mustard seed does not become a tree because it has made great efforts, but simply because it becomes active and applies what it has! Oh, how it would be good if we understand that today, with all our weaknesses, difficulties and temptations every day, we can simply stand still with childlike faith in the hand of our Savior!
Just think, it's simple faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ who can take us forward and that each day brings us to a deeper communion with the Lamb of God, not the effort of our soul into believing enough.
In our life as Christians we don’t need to look for new ways to extend our faith, but simply have and use faith by which we are saved, the simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That faith David says in Psalm 18:29: "With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall.” This verse testifies that although David was a man with weaknesses and mistakes like us, he caught with all simplicity to his God and through Him could do great deeds.
Returning to the mustard seed… What we saw in the case of the mustard seed? It has almost nothing to offer, but offers everything it has, and thereby experiences great results!
Have a nice day! God bless you!
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