No faith, no matter how infinitesimal, is insignificant. It is a false impression that to have little faith is as good as having no faith at all, that such faith has no purpose. Little faith is always better than no faith at all.
Last Sunday, the Gospel was trying to tell us how size does not matter. While one may be so minute, it does not necessarily mean that that thing is incapable of taking on a tremendous task. Take the mustard seed as an example. Who would have thought that a seed so small could command a tree so much larger than it? Jesus emphasized that, indeed, all that was essential was faith. Not size, not hierarchy, just faith.
Oftentimes, we are only made to see one side what this Gospel is teaching us, i.e., the kind of faith as regards to faith in God. This Gospel, moreover, could be analyzed from another point of view, that is, the kind of faith we have in ourselves. Going back to the premise of of how something so minute can still be capable of taking on a tremendous task, we can see how much this relates to us. Most often than not, we always seem to find ways to wound our self-esteem; we always seem to dwell on the negative side of things. We belittle ourselves too much thinking of how much we are incapable. Our self-faith is barely even there. In that case, here we can really find a real-life application of the Gospel. No matter how arduous certain tasks may be, we must always have faith in ourselves that we can do it and we can do it to the best of our abilities. That little determination, that little perseverance, and that little resoluteness will take us a long way, making us accomplish things we never even knew we were capable of.
Like I said, no faith, no matter how infinitesimal, is insignificant.
Have faith in God. Have faith in yourself.
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