Luke 17:5-6: The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase
our faith!” And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed,
you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and
it would obey you."
There is so much trouble in this broken
world. So much that it is beyond description, certainly beyond understanding. I
ask God to explain, I ask him for some sort of understanding of his plan. Please,
Lord, help me to understand why you have heaped upon us pain after pain after
pain. And then I realize that understanding is too much to ask for. I need to
simplify my plea to God. So I just ask him for faith. Please, Lord, give me faith. I don’t need you
to give me an incalculable amount of faith because you have said that even
faith like a grain of mustard seed is enough. The simple presence of faith is
all I ask. Faith that can give me courage to stand up to evil. Faith that can
give me the conviction to speak the truth, to call out the name of Jesus even
when I may be despised or mocked for being a Christian. Faith that allows me to
hold on to hope and love when my heart is broken. Faith to realize that this
earth is not my home, it is not all there is, there is something much, much
better that one day will be mine if I just persevere in faith. In this little
bit of faith that is enough to move mountains.
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