Mustard Seed Faith

Well, hello there again! What a blessing it is to have another chance of guest posting here on ‘The Chronicles of Ruthie Hart’!

If you hadn't had the chance to read my first guest post on Ruthie’s blog, I’d like to describe again, how I first came in contact with her blog. I saw the ‘name’ of her blog on another friend’s blog. Her name ‘Ruthie Hart’ is a very catchy name, however, to me, the name ‘Ruthie Hart’ had a bit more meaning to me. Her name was just ‘one’ letter off from my Grammy’s name ‘Ruthie Harl’. This left a sweet imprint on my heart. I went to her blog and I was sold. As I strolled through her blog, I found that she first & foremost, loved Jesus, had a servant’s heart to minister to others, adored her husband and Ernie, well he IS the boss. Period. I felt after strolling through her blog, she had the desire to bring a living Jesus to a dying world!

We partnered together our blogs and my family’s shoppe, which I believe will be many years to come. My family and I own a shoppe by the name of ‘Tookies’ and I have a blog by the name of ‘oh.MY.tookies!’ So there is my described journey to Ruthie and her blog again!

Lately I have found that I more and more that lose faith easily, due to the discouraging ‘things’ of this world that I happen to let enter into my heart and mind. One thing I try to remain steadfast about is not letting these discouraging things enter into my ‘soul’. I feel that my soul is a ‘permanent’ place where I can be forever changes. Discouragements, sadness, anger, loss of faith, can enter into my mind & heart easily, however my mind, I can choose to change my direction of thoughts by keeping His word deposited daily and my heart, well, I just wear my heart on my sleeve, I have an emotional heart, I sometimes give too much trust too soon, I make ‘emotional’ decisions, however because I have my God’s Word, hidden in my heart, I can do a ‘spring cleaning’ of my heart many, many times a year! The barriers, of my mind and my heart, protect my soul, but this still doesn’t keep my faith from dwindling. So this is what has made me SEEK to have more faith, as much as I can get. With me, discouragements can come easily; sadness can come easily, so if I do not keep myself edified with God’s word, then I have no power to keep my faith from dwindling. This is what let me to really giving my heart and mind, a ‘spring cleaning’ and filling all I clean out with some ‘mustard seed faith’.

So I ask you, have you ever seen a mustard seed?
These seeds are one of the smallest of all seeds!

The mustard seed is so small that you can barely see it. I have seen some wear a necklace that has one of these tiny mustard seeds inside of a piece of glass. A wonderful daily reminder as a symbol of their faith in our God. I personally could not find a mustard seed in a ‘piece of glass’, so I opted for this amazing hand-stamped necklace, handmade by 'Visible Faith Jewelry'.

 So I had to ask myself ...
‘do I know why the mustard seed is considered a symbol of faith & do I have mustard seed faith?’

I began re-reading in Luke 17, I found that I wanted to make sure when I was finished, I KNEW, without a doubt, what ‘mustard seed faith’ was all about!

This is the beautiful lesson I filled my heart with.

One day, Jesus was talking with his disciples. One of them said, "Lord, please, increase our faith." Jesus answered and said, "If you had faith, trust and confidence even as the smallest seed, the mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, be pulled up by the roots, and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you."

I just could not imagine having this kind of faith! Can you imagine what it would be like to have that kind of faith?

I once heard this story about a man who read this Bible verse and decided that he was going to put it to the test. He had this giant tree in his front yard; he went out to that tree in his yard and hollered, "In the morning when I wake up, I want you gone!" He slept, woke up the next morning, and the first thing he did is went to his front door, opened it, and looked out into his front yard. "Just as I thought!" the man said. "It's still there."

For starters, the guy just didn't have mustard seed sized faith. As a matter of fact, he didn't have any faith at all!  When he commanded tree to be ‘gone’, he had no faith whatsoever, and he just frankly, never expected it to happen. He also totally missed the lesson that Jesus was trying to teach his disciples.

Jesus was not suggesting that you and I go around and try to move some trees just to prove that we have faith! The lesson that Jesus was trying to teach his disciples, is that it you don’t have to have all the faith in the world to produce great results. This is what I understood. Also what I get in this lesson is the results don't depend on ‘me’, they 100% depend on God! So NOW, I am starting to understand, His Word!

Basically, if the results depended on MY amount of faith, at this moment, I’d totally fail, however if I take just a ‘fraction’ of the amount of faith I COULD have, I would have complete ‘mustard seed faith’!

This story encourages me, and makes me want to go ‘find something’ to PUT my faith in! When I had this thought, I realized that I was looking at what ‘mustard seed faith’ truly is. I should not be asking God big huge faith so that I can go out and do fabulous things…  I NEED to be asking God for faith the size of a tiny little itty bitty mustard seed, so that I can see God do fabulous things!

‘Mustard Seed Faith’, so SO small, yet ENORMOUS when it comes to faith!

Luke 17.5-6 ~ "If you had faith, trust and confidence even as the smallest seed, the mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, Be pulled up by the roots, and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you."

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