A song on the girls' favorite CD has a refrain about faith as small as a mustard seed. As the Scripture says, the song sings that with faith as small as a mustard seed you can tell a mountain to move and it will move.
Of course, I know this passage. But to be honest, it doesn't really jive with my view of faith. In the gospel according to me, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed then you will believe that God could move the mountain if He wanted to, and that He probably doesn't want to, and that if you ask Him to do such an arbitrary thing you're treating Him like a genie in a bottle, and that doing so puts you on the same level as a "health and wealth" believer, and this isn't "real" faith at all.
Now, I know I that all Scripture is God-breathed. So obviously it's my view of faith that's wrong here. But I'm not quite sure where the line is between the mustard-seed-mountain-moving type of faith that Jesus calls us to and the my-faith-will-heal-me-and-make-me-rich kind of faith that misses the mark. I tend to be so wary of the latter that I forego the former, and in doing so I fail to exercise faith at all.
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