A Grain Of Mustard Seed

"A Grain Of Mustard Seed" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

The Story
Tapper was leading a Bible study with his fellow Smurfs Barber and Sweepy, and his students were perplexed by one thing that was on their minds.

"How is it that you are able to believe in things that smurf to pass, whatsoever you ask of this God of yours?" Barber asked.

"Aye, mate, that's what I'm smurfing about also," Sweepy said. "Does that need to have a great faith in this Almighty?"

"Actually, it doesn't, my fellow Smurfs," Tapper answered. "The Almighty's son says all you need is faith as a grain of mustard seed."

"A mustard seed?" Barber and Sweepy both said together.

"This is one of the parables He had smurfed about to His disciples," Tapper explained. "In this parable, He smurfed that the Kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, which when planted is the smallest of all seeds, but when it grows, it smurfs bigger than all the herbs so that it becomes a tree, big enough for birds to smurf in its branches."

"So we're to plant this seed of faith and it's supposed to grow?" Barber asked.

"This smurfs all too confusing for me, mate," Sweepy said, scratching his head in thought.

"Smurf through the history of the Lord's people and you will see that little becomes much when the Almighty is in it, my friends," Tapper said. "When He smurfed to Abraham that he would be the father of nations, the only children he had smurfed into the world at that point was Ishmael, through his wife's handmaid Hagar, and Isaac, through his wife Sarah. Yet it was through Isaac that God's promises to fulfill His covenant would be smurfed to fruition. Isaac became the father of two sons, Esau and Jacob, and it would be through Jacob that the twelve fathers of the tribes of Israel would be smurfed, and from one the tribes, Judah, would smurf the greatest king of Israel, David, who had many sons. And from one of those sons the Messiah would be born through a virgin woman, as prophesied by Isaiah many years later."

"So how does this apply to our faith, Tapper?" Barber asked.

"You just need to believe that God exists and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently smurf after Him, Barber," Tapper answered. "You don't need to smurf anything of your own self to make it happen. Just listen to what the Almighty is smurfing you through His Word and be faithful to it even when it seems hopeless."

To be expanded on.