Bedside Watchman A Living Faith

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July 16th -- Matthew 17

A Living Faith

Faith is trust in God, and this implies knowledge of God's will. A faith to achieve what is not in the will of God is both fruitless and futile. But living faith, in harmony with God's will, is, Jesus teaches, charged with power of accomplishment.

Jesus gave the same illustration of faith's power when the disciples had expressed surprise that the fig tree had withered away (Matt. 21:21). On another occasion (Luke 17:7) he used the rooting up of a sycamore tree instead of moving a mountain, as a figure of difficulty. He had been speaking of forgiveness to an unlimited number of occasions on repentance; and as the disciples regarded this as difficult to perform, they begged of him, "Lord, increase our faith." This was answered by the reference to faith as a grain of mustard seed. A living seed has power -- that power is the expression of its life and is comparable to the power of faith in man. The spirit that forgives is the expression of the living faith of the disciples of Christ.

John Carter, Parables of the Messiah, pages 124-125