The Faithfulness of God – Toni M. Babcock
“But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen and guard you from the evil one,” (II Thessalonians 3:3 CSB).
Sometimes we lament the smallness of our faith, feeling if we only trusted and believed more the Lord would hear and answer our prayers. We get focused on the weakness of our faith and its failure to live up to what we feel it ought to be instead of focusing on God and who He is. Our shortsightedness fails to appreciate the faithfulness of God and what He is already at work producing in our lives.
The disciples must have had the same problem. They came to Jesus one day and asked Jesus to increase their faith. “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed,” the Lord said, “you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you,” (Luke 17:6 CSB).
Jesus didn’t mean the disciples should go around testing the premise by uprooting local mulberry trees and casting them into the sea. The point Jesus was making is this: It is not the size of our faith we are to be focused on — but the faithfulness of God. So that the next time a family member comes to Christ who we thought would never believe the gospel, or God brings someone through an impossible situation in a miraculous way, we won’t be asking ourselves ‘What?? My faith was so small — how in the world did that happen?’ — instead, we will smile and confirm in our hearts the faithfulness of God.
Toni M. Babcock is author of Reflections from the Heart, In light of the Gospel of Jesus. Contact | 
