Mondays And Mustard Seeds

The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" He replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you. -- Luke 17:5-6 NIV

Mondays are pretty hard sometimes, aren't they? We've just finished up a week and it's time to begin again. Maybe it was a particularly busy weekend and you don't feel rested. Maybe there are things on your plate on Monday that you don't really want to deal with. Or maybe it was a really restful weekend and you wish it would could just continue a while longer.

Whatever it is, Monday is just the toughest day of the week. I'll bet if you polled 1,000 people that 990 of them would say that they usually just try to get through Monday, and while I can appreciate that and will admit to feeling that way a bunch of the time too, I also have to tell you that Monday is just as much God's day as the rest of them. Sometimes I think we get caught in that rut and we're just trying to survive. The Monday Blues carry over into the other days of the week. Haven't you had weeks like that?

Jesus responded to his companions' request to have their faith increase with something that had to have thrown them for a loop. After all, they thought they already had a good amount of faith and here is Jesus telling them that if their faith were even as big as a tiny, little mustard seed they would be capable of remarkable things. I'm not sure they believed it. We tend to focus on what the world tells us is possible or what we should do and by doing so we put limits on God. We shrink God to fit our perspective and in doing so put serious limits on our faith. We wonder if God can pull us out of a financial hole. We ask without really meaning it for God to heal a loved one, because we don't really think He can...or will. Maybe we're missing out on what Jesus was really trying to tell the apostles regarding faith!

What if, by the power of the Holy Spirit living inside of us, had the power to do all of those remarkable things we so often decide are impossible? What if by believing God is capable of all things we could pray healing on someone and find them healed? What if we could pray something and simply believe it to come true and then sit back and patiently wait for it to come to pass? Do me a favor...go take a look at a picture of a mustard seed next to something else. Those things are tiny!!! And if we have faith that amounts to even that little bitty seed we are capable of doing incredible things. God is infinite, so let's stop putting controls and limits on Him and open our minds up to everything He has to offer...no matter what day of the week it is.