Jesus at one point in one of his lectures said that if his disciples were to have just a small tiny amount of faith they could move mountains.
Now I am assuming most Christians when they hear this think of the great miracles like when Moses supposedly split the Red Sea.
However, let’s look at the analogy a little more carefully. Let’s assume that Jesus was not actually referring to a mountain but something similar to a mountain that could manifest in your life. Maybe a mountain is just really a gigantic problem, challenge or barrier that prevents your progress?
Go with me on this for a minute. The mountain is whatever major problem that you have right now (and I know that you have one, we all do). According to this teaching from the sage carpenter’s son, you have the power to move that mountain. But how?
He says a little faith, a particle of faith. A small amount, a mustard seed. So if you apply that small amount faith toward moving tha mountain, it will move. Now what does this really mean?
The particle of faith is just actually the belief that you can move it and nothing more. Even if you believe it is just impossible, you can exercise a mustard seed amount of faith by just believing is possible even though your rational mind is completely skeptical.
Then what? Well here is the concept in came up with this morning. You start the process of erosion. You may have thought well, I’ll start to move that mountain with a sheer force of will, with giant bucket loads of dirt and in a manner similar to an excavation project you will begin to dig and start moving earth. The problem is that you will run out of will power, you will lose funding and/or hope. You will start and then fail. The mountain will not be affected by your herculean 2 or 3 day effort.
Erosion is better, far better. Just take that little seed of hope and pick something small and start the process of erosion. A small little stream of water that trickles down the mountain side. It will have little effect when you start, but overtime, the law of accumulation will start to kick in. Pretty soon that stream will become a brook, then a tributary and then a river. Run off will be magnified by landslides and large boulder displacement. Trees will give up their hold on the earth and you by the very consistent and small effort will have started the process of moving a mountain.
So the lesson is, you want to move a mountain or solve some complex problem? Start now with a small amount of effort everday and watch what happens in a year from now. Erosion.
Guy Reams (321)
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