![]() ![]() We must quench the thirsting tiny mustard seeds of faith lest they wither and harden, becoming like stone hard pebbles that can’t take root. Meditating on scripture grounds us in the realization that the spirit of truth, the living water, is available to us, right here right now – but we must drink from the cup. During trials, transitions, and phases of arid faith, scripture nourishes the dry soil of our parched hope. Yet, these seeds of faith need nourishment to thrive. Like Jesus says, even a tiny seed will bring new seasons of fruitfulness, spreading wide it’s branches into our future, becoming shade for others to rest with thee. In the winters of lives, tiny seeds of faith blaze trails of hope through snow-drifts of worry and fretting, through dark, icy roads of bleakness and dread. Within it’s minuteness, a tiny seed of faith holds within it the spirit of truth, the powerful knowing we can rest in thee. That tiny mustard seed is a storehouse of faith, a restless, welcoming faith that holds the assurance that God will not leave or forsake us. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.” I often look at my tiny charm and think about this mighty seed that Jesus goes on to describe more in another parable, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field which indeed is smaller than all seeds. ![]() ![]() His words astounded me, those are powerful words about a tiny seed, and faith. I also read for the first time Jesus’ words about mustard seeds, directed to those like me of little faith, “For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you.” New to the Christian world, I didn’t have any sense about the relentless loyalty of a faithful God. During a crisis a long while ago, when I faced my own fragile faith, a friend gave me a tiny charm filled with mustard seeds that I could wear on a necklace or bracelet. ![]()
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