Sometimes it can feel like God isn't paying
attention to us. We begin something "in His Name" and then it
fails. Have you ever experience something like that? Well the
disciples did - and when they asked Jesus why He said they lacked faith. Ouch!
In fact Jesus went on to say they needed to pray more, and with a small amount of
faith miracles can happen.
14 When
they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he
said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the
fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
17 “You
unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus
replied, “how
long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy
here to me.” 18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it
came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.
19 Then
the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it
out?”
20 He
replied, “Because
you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as
a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’
and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” - Matthew 17
Where do you need to apply this "here to there"
lesson in your life today? May we strive to have the kind of faith that can
“move mountains”.
Amen?