Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Matthew chapter 17 verses 20:
20He 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.’
Yesterday, the mustard seed showed up in the Lectionary readings and just before the service a woman in church pulled me aside, opened up a little bag filled with mustard seeds, and asked, “Do you want one?”
They were tiny. One to two diameters in size is all. So tiny, in fact, a mustard seed can slip through your hands if you aren’t careful. And if you’re eyesight is bad then you might never be able to find it.
Yet, bite into one of these little seeds and its potency explodes. Plant it in the ground and under the right conditions a great-sized bush can sprout. The mustard seed is proof that big things can come in small packages.
“Increase our faith,” the disciples once asked of Jesus.
“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,” Jesus told them, “you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.”
Though our faith may be small; it is enough. What God has planted inside us is enough to uproot the causes which lie behind even our most intractable social and political problems.
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