Gospel Reflections #492: The Little Faith and the Big God

Matthew 6:28-30 "'Why do you fret about your garments? Look carefully at how the flowers of the field grow. They neither work nor spin. But I tell you. Even Solomon, in all his glory, was not so clothed as one of these flowers. Even the grass of the field, which today grows and tomorrow will be thrown into the furnace, God will dress it in this way. Much more so for you, you of little faith."

We look to our neighbors and covet them. We look to what they have rather than what we ourselves have.

God has given each of us invaluable blessings and grace.

When we look at ourselves, we only see something precious to us that we are holding onto, not a gift from God. This is sin, and it is what keeps us away from God.

We do not realize that our spiritual eyes are blinded by the influence of sin.

Nature is affected by sin, but we are kept alive in the harmony of God's love.

We want to have many experiences of knowing God through nature so that we can be like that too.

When we look at nature, we realize how small we really are.

And not only that, we feel as if we are expressing joy, gratitude, and hope in God's love to the fullest.

God's great presence is interested in small beings like us, and He has prepared for each of us a place where we can shine the brightest and everything we need to do so. We should receive it honestly and connect with God's desire for us!

God speaks gently to us of little faith.

God gently tells us who have little faith, "Believe in me, receive it, and put it to work. It is okay if you fail. It is okay if you fail many times."

To put faith to work means to act on what you believe and to be led by the Holy Spirit.

God has placed us in an environment where we can exercise faith, in the realm of God's love, so we can practice exercising faith many times without fear of failure.

Let us take the first step without fear!