FAITH TO MOVE MOUNTAINS
“…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.”
Matthew 17:20 (NIV)
What is our Lord trying to communicate to His
disciples? Is He suggesting that they
would be able to rearrange geographic features if they only had sufficient
faith? Why would anyone want to move a
mountain from one location to another?
As
always, if we are to understand this portion of scripture and its meaning for
our lives today, it’s important to dig deeper; and to look at the setting and
the context in which these words were originally spoken.
‘Removing
mountains’ was a Jewish figure of speech for that which was considered
incomparably difficult (Mountains were considered to be the most stable of all
things (see Psalm 46:2; Isaiah 54:10).
Thus Jesus was telling them that nothing is impossible if they truly
believed and trusted God.
Are there ‘mountains’ in your life or in those of your
loved ones that need removing --
problems that seem to defy solution? We
have His assurance that nothing is impossible if we ask for their removal in
faith.