How could I trust so quickly and easily? Years earlier, I’d nurtured a small faith that had started out the size of a mustard seed, and it had grown. Cancer felt so big and scary, but I wasn’t fazed I knew God was with me. And when the big whammy came my junior year of high school- colon cancer at age 17-I clung to my faith to get through it. It helped me trust that I was not alone, God was with me, when my parents kept fighting on the other side of my closed bedroom door. It reminded me that my faith in God meant I possessed the self-control to stay pure when I started dating. As I got older, and my faith continued to grow, the mustard seed stayed put, right by the mirror I used to get ready each morning. It encouraged me to keep going to youth group even when my friends didn’t want to go. It helped me enter conversations with friends who thought being a Christian was lame, those who had a lack of faith. It felt small, but I believed the truth if you have faith: even a small amount can lead to big things.įor the rest of my school year, as I got ready for school, the small mustard seed sat on my dresser and reminded me to keep the faith throughout my day. I was a young teenager just starting to develop my own faith, a faith separate from my parents’ faith. I loved owning a big jar of mustard seeds, but the one small seed meant the most. I took out one mustard seed and dropped it into a tiny glass container I’d been saving for something special. A Single Seedīack home, I took my new prized possession to my room and carefully opened it up, not wanting to drop any seeds in my carpet. I was grateful when my mom agreed to buy it for me. I couldn’t believe that a jar full of hundreds of mustard seeds was just nonchalantly sitting on our supermarket’s shelves. I was captivated by the imagery and encouraged that my emerging faith would one day be even stronger. That's the power of God we get to believe in. Plant tiny little dots in fertile soil and huge bushes will grow. Jesus said faith worked a lot like mustard seeds. I’d learned that He taught about genuine faith and how it’s not big and verbose, but that it is actually humble and small. Although I’d grown up in church, Jesus’ words and stories were hitting me in new ways. Diving into Matthew 13 and Luke 17, I learned about faith like a grain or seed. Just days before at youth group, we had been learning about mustard seeds and faith. “If one of these grains of mustard seeds can move mountains, I can only imagine what this entire jar can do.” The Mustard Seed Story I looked around to see if anyone else noticed, and I just stood there in amazement. I’ll never forget the day I was walking down the spice aisle in my local grocery store and noticed a jar of mustard seeds sitting on the shelf. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you.Īnd Jesus said to them, 'Through your want of faith for verily I say to you, if ye may have faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible to you, He said to them, "Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible to you. Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. “Because you have so little faith,” He answered. So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you.Īnd he saith unto them, Because of your little faith: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you. And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place and it shall remove and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
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