"God's Perfect Word" -2

"The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple." (Psalms 19:7) When we speak of God's testimony, we are talking about the witness of God; and to some, if not all of us, we could say that it is the revelation of God, and how God should be approached, worshiped, or even viewed in our minds and hearts. Adding to that the fact that His testimony is sure, and we have the equivalent to that of "faith like that of a grain of mustard seed". There are five places within the Gospels that Jesus speaks about "faith of the grain of a mustard seed", and they all have the same basic message about putting our faith in God alone. Mark's Gospel is probably the easiest to understand, and is found in Mark 4:30-32. Earlier in the chapter, Jesus was speaking of he who has and he who has not; then He went into speaking about the seed that a man plants in the ground and day by day in grows, the man knows not how, but it becomes fruit and is immediately used for the harvest. After this, Jesus says in verse thirty, "Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in all the earth: but when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all the herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it". God's testimony is not something that comes and goes with every wind of doctrine; it is sure because it does not change and is not based upon what we think or where we place our trust. Our ability to know the kind of faith that Jesus is speaking about is based upon who we put our faith in, not how much faith that we might have; because we all have the same ability to have faith of a grain of a mustard seed, it just requires that we place our trust solely in God. To some of us that are blessed with great faith, greater things shall be required of us; while to the simple at heart, they are still required to place their faith in God, and they will see great things. Either way, we are all meant to experience God's testimony of who He is and what He is able to do in and through us; all of which requires that we place our faith in Him and not in ourselves...