I've talked about it a lot and I've heard other people talk about it. In fact I've spent most of my life studying and researching and analyzing it. Faith is simply trusting in what we know is true, but cannot see. It's actually kinda easy to trust God when things are going well for us. We might even feel like, in those times, we have quite a bit of faith. But when your world is unexplainably rocke
d to it's core and everything you thought you had to stand on is stripped away, in that moment, all you have is faith. It is then that you realize how much or how little faith you actually have. A wise woman once told me, you either trust God with everything or you trust Him with nothing. We are currently walking through one of those difficult seasons and I've learned a lot about mustard seeds. Mustard seeds are very tiny little seeds, that when fully developed, can grow to be huge, beautiful, strong trees with roots that grow down deep into the ground. Jesus used a mustard seed to explain to His disciples how much faith we actually need. You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Matthew 17:20
God is always in control, He loves us more than we can even begin to understand, and if we could have just the tiniest littlest bit of faith in Him... we would be blown away with what He could do in our lives. I made this necklace as a reminder. A reminder that my faith is not in the security of the nice things I have collected. My faith is not in the people around me, even those that love me the most, and my faith is not even in my own strength to fix it, or make it right, or even make any sense of it! My faith is in Jesus, my savior... who was the same yesterday as He is today and will be tomorrow. There is so much freedom when we let go and run to Him, with faith like a little child, and rest in the fact that... He's got this.
