mustard seed faith

Matthew 17

14 When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, falling on his knees before Him and saying,


15 "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.

16 "I brought him to Your disciples, and they could not cure him."

17 And Jesus answered and said, "You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me."

18 And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not drive it out?"

20 And He said to them, "Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.

21 But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.


I didn't realize up until a few days ago I had never seen a mustard seed. When I thought of mustard seed I pictured something similar to the size of an apple seed. The other day my supper contained mustard seed. There, right in front of me was a helpful visualization of the amount of faith Christ talks about here. I am awestruck that such little faith can do so much. How much could we do if we all had faith of a mustard seed?

Seeing mustard seed really opened my eyes and given me new perspective on this passage.