Our Father is Faithful.
“5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
6 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.
Luke 17:5-6
YOU ARE asking me to perform the impossible; I am sure that I can never become a great tree, said a tiny mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds, as it lay on the soft dirt where it had dropped.
Suddenly it was caught up with a spadeful of earth, and buried ,it seemed, fathoms deep; but it was only really a few inches! There it lay in darkness and neglect. After a few weeks, a tiny green shoot appeared above the ground, and looked up to where the great parent-tree was growing; it whispered softly to itself, “Perhaps I shall be able to do it after all.” “Do what?” “Perhaps I shall become a great tree in which the birds may shelter.” “But a few weeks ago you said it was impossible.” “But at the time I had no idea that Mother Nature would work in me as she has done; if she goes on pouring herself into me as she has been doing of late, there is nothing that I cannot do; yet not I, but her life which dwells and works in me.”
All God’s fullness will flow through the tiniest channel that faith opens out on His Almighty power. Faith is the open heart towards Him, and through the channel of faith Christ lives in and through us. Hudson Taylor heard God say: “I am going to evangelize inland China, and if you will walk with Me, I will do it through you.” D.L. Moody said that the beginning of his marvelous ministry was the remark made in his hearing: “The world has yet to learn what God can do through a man wholly yielded to Him.” It is not what we do, but what God does through us, that counts; and His mighty power, passing through the tiniest aperture of faith, keeps hollowing it wider.
Jesus said , “Without Me you can do nothing.'” We know that this is so by our past failures, when we have done in our own strength. I pray that He helps us to use the little faith we have that it may become the channel for His Word and Power.
