O, Ye of Little Faith
O, Ye of Little Faith
By Danny C. Wash
“And he saith unto them, why are ye fearful, O ye
of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds
and the sea; and there was a great calm.”
Matthew 8:26
“Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them,
O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves,
because ye have brought no bread?”
Matthew 16:8
Are ye one of those “little faithers”?
That’s nothing to be proud of but
it’s the truth for many of us. What
does it mean to have little faith?
Is there a big faith we need instead?
Jesus also said, “If you have faith as
a grain of mustard seed...nothing will
be impossible for you.” A mustard seed
is not big, it is very small, one of the
smallest of seeds. The size of the faith is
not the issue, it is the size and strength of
the One in which we place that little faith.
It is wholly looking to our Lord to accomplish
what is to be removed or done with His strength,
not ours. So, the Lord was not chiding them for
the size of their faith, He was challenging them
to look to Him, who can work with the tiniest bit
of faith in Him. If it is within God’s will, it only
takes a spark of faith for His immense power to join
with and accomplish a great task on the Earth. Jesus
said, “apart from me you can do nothing.” God works
on Earth with man cooperating with Him in His work.
Like the train that needs tracks to operate on, our little
faith is like that track for God’s power to operate upon to
accomplish His will on Earth. Remember the disciple’s prayer,
“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
