What is Your Mountian made of?

“…If you have faith the size of a mustard seed…” Matthew 17:20

I have often wondered concerning this little passage if Jesus was saying that even if the mountain in front of us was built by our own sin that with faith we could move it.  It seems very reasonable to me that if we are in the center of God’s will when we encounter an obstacle, then He, through our faith, will no doubt move whatever is in our way.  But what if we find ourselves as born again Christians in a mess made by our sin, would Jesus’ statement still apply?  The context of this teaching is that a man comes to Jesus requesting His help with his son who was having seizures.  The man had already brought the child to Jesus’ disciples and they could not heal him.  The Bible says that Jesus cast a demon out of the boy and he was healed from that moment.  His disciples then came to Him asking why they were unable to drive the demon out themselves.  Jesus told them that it was due to a lack of faith.  He goes on to say that with just a little faith they could come up to a mountain and tell it to “move from here to there” and it would move.  Now to use a little logic along with this we can see that Jesus commanded demons to go and they went, He ordered the winds and rain to hush and they did, He told the dead to rise and they did, but we never saw Him move a mountain.  It seems as if Jesus is saying that we will be able to do all that He did on this earth and more if we have faith.  But what about our initial question?  The truth is many of the mountains that we will face are due to our own sin, and I believe that it is never too late to allow your faith to seize control of a situation no matter how bad it is.  Think on this: the first time anyone allows their faith to move a mountain; it is their mountain of sin that must be forgiven in order for them to be saved.  We have all encountered that mountain, and through faith God has moved it for us.  God is never OK with our sin, but He is always willing to help us through the problems if we will turn to Him.  It may never be easy, but as Jesus goes on to say, “Nothing will be impossible for you.”