Jesus commended people for having great faith. It is therefore vitally important to understand what great faith really means. The problem is that we have other verses that seem to suggest that a little faith can do great things. We have Peter telling us in 2nd Peter that we have all received faith of the same kind as theirs. How do we put these all together?
I believe the problem with our faith today is not a lack in the measure of faith but a lack in adding to our faith. Our faith in God has to begin with complete reliance on God and His promises. But that does not mean our faith is maturing. A deepening of our faith takes place when we build walls around our faith. We have to strengthen our faith not just by continuing to yield to God but by intertwining it with other virtues so that it can stand strong. Jesus spoke of a ‘mustard seed’ kind of faith twice in the gospels and if we look carefully we would find that in both the instances, there is a ‘but’ at the end of that teaching on faith. A very important lesson for us indeed. He is showing us that we may not have a lack of faith by itself but our failures are going to be because we have not worked around it to reinforce it.
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