Every spring, my dad used to scatter dozens of little squash seeds into the freshly-broken soil beside our garage. Like clockwork, he would visit these little mounds to water them, tend to them, and talk to them. Yes, my father was really into having encouraging conversations with his plants. Sure, it sounds weird, but it worked. Come June, our entire yard would be overtaken by spiraling vines with bright yellow gourds. Maybe it was the water, maybe it was the sun, or maybe it was the conversation. Whatever the cause, those little seeds created thousands of supersized squash.
When talking about your faith, Jesus says. “It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants” (4:31-32). When preaching to a group of farmers about faith, Jesus used an illustration very familiar to them — seeds. He explained that our faith is like a teeny-tiny seed. It’s not much at first, but it expands when planted. A mustard seed is the size of half a grain of rice, but the shrub that grows from it can stand almost ten feet tall.
The same is true with your faith — a little bit of faith produces big outcomes.
Everyone has faith in something. You have faith that your chair will hold you when you sit. You have faith that your friend will keep your secrets. You have faith that the Krispy Kreme employee didn’t poison your donut. Everyone has faith — the difference is what (or who) you put your faith in. You don’t need a lot of faith in God to see great things. You just need a little to get started. Your faith may be small, but your God is big. A little bit of faith in a big God leads to unbelievable outcomes.