You've done it before and it always worked the way you did it. You get use to the task and complete it with ease each time. It becomes repetitive. Then one day it doesn't work, no matter how hard you try, it's just not happening. Where did you go wrong?
That might be how the disciples felt after trying to rid this man's son of the demon. They may have fallen into a pattern, a repetition, complacency. They may have stopped recognizing their need for Jesus. Maybe pride was creeping in.
Jesus descended down the mountain where he had just spent time transformed into His true glory, renewed by a little bit of Heaven on earth, and descended into the world of sin, pride, doubt, and weak faith. Such a contrast to where He had been. Jesus had been with the twelve for a couple of years by this time, and they still didn't have pure faith in His power.
A small amount of pure faith is better then a lot of faith with doubt.
Matthew 17:14-20 NLT
14 At the foot of the mountain, a large crowd was waiting for them. A man came and knelt before Jesus and said, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son. He has seizures and suffers terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.”
17 Jesus said, “You faithless and corrupt people! How long must I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.”18 Then Jesus rebuked the demon in the boy, and it left him. From that moment the boy was well.
19Afterward the disciples asked Jesus privately, “Why couldn’t we cast out that demon?”
20“You don’t have enough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible. "
Blessings, Cecilia
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