Luke 17:6 · World English Bible
Luke 17:6 Meaning The Lord Said
The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
What does Luke 17:6 mean?
The smallest willingness is enough, for the power is not in the size of the faith but in the teacher it turns to. A mind holding even a seed's worth of trust in love can move what looked immovable, because the obstacle was never as solid as it seemed.
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The smallest willingness is enough, for the power is not in the size of the faith but in the teacher it turns to. A mind holding even a seed's worth of trust in love can move what looked immovable, because the obstacle was never as solid as it seemed. What appears deep rooted in the mind is held in place only by belief.
The deep planted tree is any conviction of separation the mind thought it could never uproot. At the word of the true teacher it lifts and is set down in the depths where it dissolves. A little trust, rightly placed, undoes what all the mind's effort could not.
Mustard seed: the smallest willingness, the little trust that is all love asks to begin its work. Sycamine tree: the deep rooted belief in separation the mind thinks it can never remove, fixed only by the conviction that holds it. Sea: the depth into which the uprooted belief is cast and dissolved, the vastness of love that undoes what the mind clung to.
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Live Luke 17:6 today
- Take the one small step on the thing you have decided is impossible, the first email, the first phone call, five minutes of it. You do not have to believe it will work to begin.
- Ask one person for the help you have been sure nobody would give. Keep the ask short and let their answer surprise you.
- When a problem at work looks like a wall, write down the single smallest action that is actually available to you right now, and do that one thing instead of staring at the whole wall.
What have I called immovable without ever testing it?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 64
A journey of a thousand miles starts under your own foot. The tree you cannot wrap your arms around began as something you could have pulled up with two fingers.
Bhagavad Gita
Offer even a little, a leaf, a flower, a sip of water, with a willing heart, and it is enough. What matters is not the size of the gift but where it is turned.
Zen tradition
The wall you have pushed against for years may only be a door you never tried the handle on.
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