ELOGOS for Monday

Luke 17:5-6
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” The Lord replied, “If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
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I have always liked the sign language interpretation of the word "understand." One sign language version combines the sign for "use" and "know." In other words, the sign for "understand" is to use what you know. The deepening of faith happens in the same way in which we learn to understand - we use what we know. I have yet to meet a follower of Jesus who declares that they have enough faith. We want more. We are leaky vessels when it comes to faith and it constantly needs to be replenished. Our natural tendency is to hoard what little we have. Jesus implores us to use what we know. Take it out for a spin. Flex our tiny muscle of faith. If we possess, even in the smallest form, the power to tell a tree to plant itself in the ocean, would we not use it for something good? The increase of our faith comes from unleashing the power of what we have been given as a gift for others. It is then that we begin to understand the nature of God.
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Holy God, show me a tree that needs to move today. Amen.