He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”     (Matthew 17:20) NIV

As uncomfortable & stressful as 2020 had been, in October, I was looking forward to the last couple of months of the year, settling back into a routine and planning to re-group, pray and plan for 2021 and seek God’s will for the next year. Then I had an accident at home & fell. I had to get an x-ray to see if anything was broken. Nothing was broken but something they saw on the x-ray turned into cancer in my lung. Not exactly what I was looking forward to.
As we all have discovered, this life is a journey that can be joyful or painful. It is paved with appointments & disappointments, research & decisions. It can be physically, mentally, and spiritually exhausting. I have been pondering the obstacles that this diagnosis presents. Then I remembered that Jesus encourages us to pray for mountains to be moved. The mountain of phone calls, paperwork & doctor appointments. The mountain of sadness & anxiety & illness. For some it could be a mountain of financial strain, broken relationships, loneliness, addiction, or a lack of direction. Whatever needs we have, Jesus can provide answers. When we remember how much bigger He is than those mountains, they begin to shrink right before our eyes.
There are a thousand things that are hard about these mountains, but Jesus is the Lord of millions of blessings. He will outnumber the problems with His overwhelming grace & mercy.

Faith Step – If you’re facing a mountain, imagine it shrinking before our Savior.