Seeds are amazing.
I’m not a science girl. I’ve never pretended to like science, nor do I have a great deal of knowledge regarding the scientific makeup of seeds. But even with my limited understanding, I do know this: if I properly plant a seed, it will grow into something that looks nothing like the object I planted.
A seed has incredible potential for good or bad. But the seeds I intentionally plant usually contain the potential to grow into beautiful things.
Jesus specifically references a seed when explaining the power and potential of faith.
He references a very small seed: the mustard seed.
“You see this seed?” I can imagine Him saying. “This is all the faith I need from you.”
Even a tiny seed of faith contains incredible potential.
Throughout the years, whenever I thought about this analogy, I would get stuck on the practicality of walking out “mustard seed” faith.
I believed.
I stood strong.
And still, there seemed to be a gap in my understanding of how to actually plant that seed like faith in the ground.
I was focused on size when I think the Lord wanted to draw my attention to time.
Many times in the Gospels, Jesus references time and what our posture toward it should be.
“Do not worry.”
“Let tomorrow take care of itself.”
“Be like children.”
Children naturally live in the present moment. They are not consumed by the future the way adults are.
A few weeks ago, the Lord spoke to me while I was in a pretty hopeless place. It felt dark. I was done physically and emotionally.
He told me He was doing a new thing in my life, something I could not comprehend with my past understanding of His faithfulness. He asked me if I trusted Him, and I was brutally honest. “I’m done. I have been holding onto faith for a long time, moving from season to season with both hope and exhaustion, and I cannot seem to look toward the future with any kind of anticipation anymore.”
I told Him I was tired, worn out, and unable to figure out how to have faith for the future.
And I felt like He told me that was okay.
Then He asked me if I had faith in Him for the rest of the day. Faith in His goodness toward me. Faith in His care, provision, and ability to sustain me until I went to bed that night.
Did I have that much faith left?
I told Him I could manage that.
I don’t know where you are with your relationships, your health, your fears, or your worries, but I know this: What the Lord was showing me was mustard-seed faith.
It was the practical way we use small faith. The mechanics of how we plant it in the ground and water it day by day.
Waking up in the morning and trusting Him for today. Believing in His goodness, provision, and presence just until we go to sleep again.
Choosing small faith for a small amount of time.
And then doing it again tomorrow.
Letting it build day by day until He moves the mountains in our lives.
So I have a question for you: Can you take a minute and talk with Him about whatever you are running out of faith for?
Do you have a mustard seed’s worth of faith left? A small bit of faith to sustain you through the next day? The next hour? Even the next minute?
Plant it.
Plant that small bit of faith.
Tell Him that you are going to trust Him with this issue through the day you are currently living.
Give Him the day.
Let Him hold the future.
Let Him be the one who brings the growth.
He wants to do a new thing. Grow a new thing.
Your Father is good, and He loves you.
With love and hope,
Lacey Steel
