Thursday Devotion: Luke 17:5-10

Mustard seeds are really small.

So, anything compared to a mustard seed would, likewise, be really small.

To have faith amounting to the volume of a mustard seed seems like a very bad idea, especially in my American mind: bigger is better, the more the merrier!

Jesus tells his disciples that a little bit goes a long way, but they aren't satisfied. They fear that their faith is not as grand as it should be, because they are merely doing what they were called to do. They feel as if they are settling for far less than what could be theirs, but Jesus tells them otherwise.

We are unworthy servants; there is nothing we can do that will ever compare to the acts done to and for us by the father, through the son. We merely have to believe and mountains will move; mulberry bushes will throw themselves into the sea; we can love our neighbor.

The fact that you have faith is enough!

Faith is enough!

You are enough!

Enough...

Let it be so!

Amen.

Luke 17:5-10 (NIV)

⁵ The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” ⁶ 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.
⁷ “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? ⁸ Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? ⁹ Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? ¹⁰ So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”