According To Your Faith
“I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20
“Seeing is believing,” is a popular saying yet from God’s point of view, it is believing that brings spiritual vision.
Once, Jesus was leaving Jericho for Jerusalem and He met two blind men who cried out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” When Jesus heard this, He stopped. He knew what they wanted, and He was prepared to give it to them. They had heard that He could heal the sick and deformed. “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” Jesus asked them, and they replied, “Yes, Lord.”
According to Matthew, who was an eyewitness, Jesus touched them and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you!”
Even though we place a premium on action, Jesus placed it on belief, on faith. He tells someone who is blind to believe in something they have heard about but never seen.
Thousands of people had seen Jesus perform one or more of the 34 miracles recorded in the New Testament but they still had trouble believing, yet, He tells blind men to believe – to have faith!
The question that Jesus asked is one you must answer when you pray: “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” So, what’s your answer?
Faith is simply believing what the Word tells you. It doesn’t attempt to understand how God does it. It just believes that He will.
For the intellectuals of Jesus’ day, that God would honour simple faith over action didn’t make sense. From their point of view, God rewarded right living—deeds of mercy and justice. And what’s wrong with that? Nothing in itself, but Jesus taught that what God does is not a reward which He gives in recognition of the good we do.
Paul makes it very clear; “Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost”. Titus 3:5.
Faith doesn’t deny the problem, it just believes that God is more powerful and that He will honour the simple promises He has made. So how do you answer that question, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” God’s response is still the same, “According to your faith will it be done to you!”
“Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.” Romans 10:17