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07.08.10 LITTLE FAITH

When they came to the crowd a man approached, knelt down before him, and said, "Lord, have pity on my son, for he is a lunatic and suffers severely; often he falls into fire, and often into water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him." Jesus said in reply, "O faithless and perverse generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him here to me." Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour the boy was cured. Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and said, "Why could we not drive it out?"  He said to them, "Because of your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." (Mt 17:14-20)

 

 

When people suffer severely, they always approach God, Godly persons or disciples of Godly persons. Man accepts that there are situations which are beyond the control of man and man on his own will not be able to overcome it. Man accepts that such situations need the help and the assistance from above (divine).

 

God can certainly overcome such situations because nothing is impossible for God. Now what about Godly persons? Godly persons will be able to do only with the help of faith. But many a times Godly persons appear to be Godly but without faith. “O faithless and perverse generations”. Yes there could be Godly persons without faith.

 

This is the lesson that Jesus gives his disciples. He advices his disciples, that they could not do the needful because of their lack of faith. Faith, not in the sense of great quantity. But a little faith: faith in the size of a mustard seed. Jesus also says that nothing is impossible for a man of faith (nothing is impossible for God).