A Little Dab Will Do You

 “You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”

~Matthew 17:20

Faith is not an easy concept to grasp, so let me try to explain it as best as I am able.  Every time you take a breath, you expect there to be oxygen for you to take in.  This is faith!  Every time you sit in a chair, you expect it to hold you (unless you are using doll furniture).  That is faith!  We have faith in a lot of daily happenings that we don't even give conscious thought about.  Our faith in these things is strong and we can rely on the routine of these things.

Now....when I was young, my elders (who shall remain nameless for now) thought the best method of teaching me to swim was the "sink or swim method" whereby I was heaved off a dock into water well over my head, and I would have to figure out pretty quickly how to keep breathing.  Not fun in the least, was that!  But I grew to have faith in the fact that water and my chubbiness would bring me close enough to the surface that I could manage to get my head above water long enough to gasp a breath.  After several times of doing this, I figured out that if I just relaxed, I would float.  I hated learning to swim and still don't enjoy the endeavor, but my faith in God's physics of floating fat has grown dramatically.

The same holds true as we we seek to grow our faith in God as He deals with us in our every day life!  Recently, I submitted my Timesheet at work and received a rather abrupt response that it had been rejected.  I tried again and several hours after they were due, I got another notice that it had been rejected again.  By this time, the deadline to submit my timesheet was past and, try as I might, I could not access my Timesheet to see what could be done.  And in the midst of the images of missing a paycheck and all the repercussions of the absence of funds I felt as though I was drowning, and I prayed for help. And, believe it or not, a peace settled on me and I in the quiet of my heart I heard "Trust Me."  The next morning, the most wonderful person in the world helped me make sense of the issue and helped me get it corrected. And my Faith Grew!

If you look at the photo, you will see a single mustard seed.  It is tiny!  Jesus said if our faith were even as big as that tiny seed, we could move mountains!  The giant plant you see the man standing in front of grew from a single tiny mustard seed.

Think about this, people go to the gym and lift weights until their muscles are huge and their veins look as though they will explode.  But they had to start small.  Just like our faith starts in the small things.  Imagine what we could accomplish if our faith grew like the muscles of the weightlifter.  Just imagine....is it time to start working out at the Faith Gym?