Wednesday, 3 September 2025

Faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains.

Here is a poem exploring that profound truth, weaving in the scripture and its beautiful implications.


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The Seed and The Summit


I stand before the mountain, vast and gray, That blocks the sun and turns my day to night. Its shadow chills the path,confuses way, A monolithic,immovable blight.


My faith feels small—a trembling, tiny thing, A breath of doubt upon a stormy sea. It has no strength to rise on eagle's wing, It has no voice to command,"Move for me."


But then a whisper comes upon the breeze, A truth as ancient as the dust and sod: "If you have faith as small as mustard seeds, You'll say to this mountain, 'Move,' and it will, for God."


Not vast and certain, without any fear, Not perfect knowledge,blindingly bright, But just a seed—a choice to hold You near, And trust Your promise in the darkest night.


So I speak to the mountain of my dread, The one of grief,of failure, or of pain. I speak the words Your own dear Son has said, And watch the solid rock begin to strain.


It is not by my power, small and weak, But by the King in whom that seed is sown. The mountain moves for Him,the One I seek, Who calls the eternal seeds of hope His own.


For what is faith but taking You at word? A tiny pivot on a point of grace. The moving of the mountain,seen and heard, Begins with one small glance upon Your face.


So let my seed of faith, though scarce beheld, Be planted in the soil of Your great might. Until the mighty fortress that was felled Becomes a testament to sacred sight.


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The Scripture at the Heart:


The poem is built upon the words of Jesus in Matthew 17:20:


He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, 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.”


It also echoes a similar teaching in Luke 17:6:


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.”


The paradox is stunning: the smallest of seeds contains the potential to displace the largest of obstacles. The power is not in the size of the faith, but in the object of the faith—the limitless power of God.

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