FAITH UNFURLED Mustard Seed Faith

Seed Faith

Unpack your kit and get started. Don’t worry you don’t have enough tools or all the right ones. Start the job. Whatever little you have is enough.

“… if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Mathew 17:20

Don’t worry if you are a newbie fresh in faith, unsure and untested, or a prayer warrior assigned to a new mission in unknown territory–assured is your supply chain.

“Again he said, ‘What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it? ³¹ It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. ³² Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.’” Mark 4:30-32

An Enduring Stain

Mustard seed produces a strong and an enduring substance–a little goes a long way. Recall the hot dog stand incident? Even after ten washes the stain stays in your shirt? It’s not going away.

A little faith embedded also endures. And although its presence doesn’t forestall fear, it means evil can’t ride our fear and overtake us. Nor does it protect us from life experiences but it armors us for experiencing life. Faith is a surety in uncertainty, a steadfast conviction that God’s hand is steering towards her desired destination even when it looks not.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

Faith is an inexplicable knowing. Sometimes in direct contradiction to the glaring and immediate facts there exists a sense of a greater and more powerful force engaged. It is the rooting of faith’s mustard seed.

Black Mustard Seed Grows Tall

A black mustard seed is tiny but when planted and cultivated grows as high as nine feet and with a potent essence. If we invest in that little seed, dig a few inches to sow its beginnings, then what is our plan afterward to cultivate?

“Faith is an active force–not a passive one–an invisible power, like love.”  Myss, Caroline Invisible Acts of Power–Channeling Grace in Your Everyday Life (New York: Free Press, 2004) 2.

 

Prayer activates faith in the same way spring rain and sunshine brings to life a garden. The spiritual energy at our core some call the seventh chakra uses prayer as a conduit to reach the heart of God. At the centre life blends spiritual and physical–in heaven as on earth.

Like putting fire to incense prayer’s essence permeates and fills space. An invisible energy activates into the universe. The love at its source spreads the power of healing and wholeness to far reach.

And it all starts with an undersized seed of faith.

When we believe in a power greater than ourselves we step into the hole where faith plants. Its growth intertwines with our own and empowers even to nine feet–a faith unfurled.