Making the Trees Dance

“So the Lord said, ‘If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea.’ and it would obey you’”
Luke 17:6

A mustard seed is a very small thing, mentally I’m sure we all know that, but I’ve actually held one in my hand, and man are they tiny, even in comparison with other seeds.
   This verse makes me a bit nervous, because if all I really need is a tiny ounce of faith to animate trees and make they dance in the river, why haven’t I made them dance before?
   I don’t know about you but I haven’t seen very many mulberry trees talking a stroll to a river bank and just wade in the water. Why is that? Does the Word literally mean that if I simply believe I can make trees come to life? Or is it trying to highlight the fact that I as a child of God many times in my heart and mind place a limit on His power?
     Stay with me for a second. When I first read this verse, my knee jerk reaction was kind of to scoff it off, it seems silly, almost fantastically so,that this would be the picture chosen to illustrate Faith... but I think that that might be the point. If I cannot take God at His literal word and sincerely believe that I can make a Mulberry tree pick up its roots by my Faith in God and plant itself in a river, then how can I claim to have faith in God when it comes to moving mountains or curing cancer? If the silliest almost fairy tale like actions cause me to doubt God, do I really have all that much faith in Him at all?
     Maybe the reason that I haven’t seen very many trees dancing in the river is because I don’t have enough faith to make them dance. This verse brings to light, at least for me, how little faith I have in God sometimes. No millimeter of my heart should doubt that God could actual command a tree to move and that it would actually move. I’m called to have child like faith, whether it be in the literal and physical movement of trees and mountains or faith that He can completely heal someone, or deliver me from sin, or even that He has plans for me that are not going to lead me in the wrong direction.
       My Faith is being stretched just by being here, but for me, it was really important to note just how much more I have to learn, not in a condemning way or anything but simply as a realization that having faith is crucial, and you can never have too much, but you can certainly not have enough.

Application:
     I will memorize Matthew 6:30 unto my heart and repeat it out loud whenever I find myself doubting God, or what He’s spoken to me