While most seeds take at least 7 to 10 days to germinate and send out a root, the mustard seeds that I planted on Sunday afternoon were sprouts above the ground on Tuesday! The seeds I planted in the large pot at home grew to be about a foot tall, were robust, and even flowered. Because I placed the pot out in the yard, the young trees took a bit of a beating through hard downpours of rain and big windstorms that summer. They took a beating, but they still thrived! Out of all of the seeds the He created in the world, why would He use this one? It is especially significant to know that the Middle Eastern mustard seed is the smallest seed, and it grows into a huge tree! In my spirit, He encouraged me to plant some American mustard seeds (because I could not get any Middle Eastern ones) to see why. And that’s the key! Nothing He has given us to do will be impossible because He is working in us.Ī few years ago, I asked the Lord why He chose the mustard seed as the example in this verse. I believe that Jesus is telling us that without him, we can do nothing and that with Him (because He is working in our lives) nothing He has given us to do will be impossible for us. What it is telling us is that there will be “mountains” in our lives that seem to be unmovable (sickness, disabilities, financial problems, relational problems, academic issues, etc.), and if we have faith the size of the tiny seed, nothing will be impossible for us.
I do not believe that the verse is meant to rearrange the landscape. I often tease the students and parents a bit and tell them that I really do not think that the Lord is telling them to move Liberty’s Snowflex or Liberty Mountain to their hometown. As we talk together about how the “faith the size of a mustard seed can move mountains” I have seen God’s truth turn despair into hope and discouragement to courage. So much so that I have taped a mustard seed on each of my business cards to give to students and parents when we meet for the first time. This is such a precious verse because of its encouragement. Nothing will be impossible for you” (NIV). 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. His reply to them is found in verse 20: “ because you have so little faith. After Jesus did what they could not do, they came to him privately to ask why. They failed to cast the demon out of a young boy.
In Matthew 10, we read about the power that Jesus gave his disciples to cast out demons, raise the dead, and heal the sick. They did it many times until we see them in Matthew 17. Mustard Seed Chronicles: Story Time with LU Grandma
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