Mustard Seeds

By Krysta Denzer

"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." - Matthew 17:20, NIV

We've all heard about faith the size of a mustard seed. But just how small is a mustard seed? Well, take a look at the photo below. And the photos below that. The tiny green dots are the mustard seeds. The larger spirals were once part of the seed pods.

Plants in the mustard family have four-petaled flowers with six stamens, four tall and two short. The seed pods form a raceme, a growth pattern which resembles a spiral staircase wrapping around the plant's stem. Some of the plants can grow to the size of a shrub or small tree.

"He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.'" - Matthew 13:31-32, NIV

"And the Lord said, 'If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, 'Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea'; and it should obey you.'" - Luke 17:6, KJV

"Nothing will be impossible for you." - Matthew 17:20, NIV

Let us thank the Lord for His grace and mercy towards us.