SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY (LUKE 17:5-9, FAITH AND DUTY)

5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

6 He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.

7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’?

8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’?

9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do?

BREAKDOWN NOTES

17:5-6, The apostles wanted Jesus to give them a supersized faith (17:5), but Jesus said, “You only need a mustard-see-sized faith.”

The size of the faith, then, isn’t the issue. The right kind of faith is. That’s because the right kind of faith packs a powerful punch. A mustard seed is incredibly small (17:6). Don’t be concerned with how big the object of your faith is. We don’t require tremendous faith. All we need is genuine faith in our tremendous God.