(Reflection for the week of May 27 – June 2)
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of 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.” Matthew 17:20
Mustard seeds are tiny. They resemble sesame seeds but are even smaller. Imagine having faith in God as small as that and still being able to command a mountain to move and it would listen.
It’s hard for us to wrap our heads around the concept because we’re so fixated on the part of the statement that says “the size of a mustard seed”. Because we’re visual thinkers, we think about that tiny little seed, we think about it’s puniness and it’s almost being irrelevant in the matter of moving mountains. What we forget is that when we have faith, we are saying we believe, and when we believe in something it is because we accept it as true. We accept that God and all He says and all He promises is true and when we accept God we also invite Him to be with us, be in us. That alone is why we can move mountains even if our faith is tiny.
But let us be reminded, the mountain does not move because you tell it to, it moves because it is submissive to the God of creation who is in you.
