#Faith of a mustard seed full#

It encouraged me to keep going to youth group even when my friends didn’t want to go. It helped me enter conversations with friends who thought being a Christian was lame, those who had a lack of faith. It felt small, but I believed the truth if you have faith: even a small amount can lead to big things.įor the rest of my school year, as I got ready for school, the small mustard seed sat on my dresser and reminded me to keep the faith throughout my day. I was a young teenager just starting to develop my own faith, a faith separate from my parents’ faith. I loved owning a big jar of mustard seeds, but the one small seed meant the most. I took out one mustard seed and dropped it into a tiny glass container I’d been saving for something special. A Single Seedīack home, I took my new prized possession to my room and carefully opened it up, not wanting to drop any seeds in my carpet. I was grateful when my mom agreed to buy it for me.

#Faith of a mustard seed full#

I couldn’t believe that a jar full of hundreds of mustard seeds was just nonchalantly sitting on our supermarket’s shelves. I was captivated by the imagery and encouraged that my emerging faith would one day be even stronger. That's the power of God we get to believe in. Plant tiny little dots in fertile soil and huge bushes will grow. Jesus said faith worked a lot like mustard seeds. I’d learned that He taught about genuine faith and how it’s not big and verbose, but that it is actually humble and small.

Although I’d grown up in church, Jesus’ words and stories were hitting me in new ways.

Diving into Matthew 13 and Luke 17, I learned about faith like a grain or seed. Just days before at youth group, we had been learning about mustard seeds and faith. “If one of these grains of mustard seeds can move mountains, I can only imagine what this entire jar can do.” The Mustard Seed Story I looked around to see if anyone else noticed, and I just stood there in amazement. I’ll never forget the day I was walking down the spice aisle in my local grocery store and noticed a jar of mustard seeds sitting on the shelf.