January 28, 2022

"If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things." That’s from Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll.

We are all mixture of belief and unbelief, faith and doubt. Even the most faithful among us have major belief blind spots – places we aren’t able to believe the simplest true things.

Jesus gives us a sweeping word of grace about belief. “The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.” (Luke 17: 5-6)

Do you realize how small a mustard seed is? Just the want to want to want to believe is enough to fill the sea with trees.

“Heavenly Father, you have promised to hear what we ask in the Name of your Son: Accept and fulfill our petitions, we pray, not as we ask in our ignorance, nor as we deserve in our sinfulness, but as you know and love us in your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” (Collect at the Prayers – BCP p. 394)