Faith as a Grain of Mustard Seed

I was reading this morning in James where he talks about faith, and faith without works being dead, and Abraham's faith being made perfect by his works. It's James 2:14-26 if you want to look it up, I won't copy it all here.

It got me thinking.... kinda off topic but that's how my mind works!.... of when Jacob was a newborn and had kidney problems. I forget the name of it now but basically his kidneys didn't work properly to flush everything out of his body. We first saw it in a sonogram while I was pregnant with him, his kidney's were larger than they should have been. After he was born we had to take him to Fort Worth to the children's hospital for more tests and the doctor there put him on daily antibiotics to prevent an infection.

Y'all that know me know that I'm not big on taking my kids to the doctor. I guess the last time I took one in for a sick visit was 2 years ago when Travis had a bad ear infection and then developed Bell's Palsy. So I wasn't to thrilled with having Jake on daily antibiotics when he didn't have an infection.

We did it for a few weeks but it just didn't sit right with me. I just really felt that I needed to trust God for Jake's healing and not the meds. I don't judge anyone for taking meds, I'm on daily medicine right now and do give my kids medicine when they need it, but in this instance I felt like I was out of God's will by giving him the antibiotics.

So I stopped. And then I felt worse! The devil jumped on me then, telling me Jacob was going to get an infection and it would be all my fault.

One night at church I confided my struggle to a sister in the Lord. What she shared has stuck with me ever since. She said that that morning she had taught her class on having faith as a grain of mustard seed and then she held out her hand. When she did I felt God all over me and started crying right there.... I'm almost crying now just thinking about it.

I've heard that passage in scripture my whole life, but seeing her stretch out her hand and picturing just that tiny bit of faith, it really came alive. Do it now, look in the palm of your hand... do you believe God that much? Sometimes when we're facing a problem the problem can seem so big and our faith so little. But a little bit is all we need. Looking in her hand it was obvious, of course I believe God that much, that's easy!!

And thinking on that little bit of faith, it started to grow. Suddenly instead of being beaten down by worry I was lifted up by faith. Not so much faith for his healing but just faith in God. That's really all we need. It doesn't matter what we're facing as long as our eyes are on God and not on the trial.

Hebrews 11:16 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Jacob was healed. I kept him off the antibiotics, he never developed an infection and when we took him back for his follow up tests everything was normal.

Matthew 17:20 .....If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.