What is faith? How does one get it? Does faith come in quantity amounts? How much faith does one need? These are all good questions, and do not necessarily demonstrate a lack of faith. But faith seems to be in short supply these days, and as a matter of fact, I think that if faith were a commodity, it would be in short supply: more precious than gold, impossible to find, and sought after by the masses.
The Bible says that "any" faith is all that it takes, but we live in such a comparison based society,everything is viewed on a scale as compared to someone else. Look at this passage, and what Jesus says about the required quantity of faith:
He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew 17:20
So when it is all said and done, it seems that quantity is not really what faith is all about. Now if quantity does not matter, then it has to be about position. What I mean is that faith is not about whether or not you have any, but all about where you are putting the faith that you have. I believe every single person has faith. So instead of the church verses the world chanting about who has more or less faith, maybe it is time we start to focus less on how much we have, and more on where we put it, and that place is in Jesus Christ.
You picking up what I 'm putting down?
...just askin'
In His grip,
Pastor Pat
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