Today, I am reading and commenting on  Luke 17-18.

When Jesus’ disciples asked Him to increase their faith, He told them two things.  He told them that it only takes a small amount of faith to do great things.  We easily see how that part of His answer applies.  On the other hand, we don’t usually connect the second part of His answer with ways to increase our faith.   Jesus tells us that to increase our faith we should seek how we can serve God more, all the while recognizing that our work for God does not make us worthy of His mercy.  So, Jesus tells us that we don’t need as much faith as we think we do.  He follows that up by telling us that to get more faith we should do what we know God asks of us, and then look for more to do for Him.  In a way the other teaching I want to highlight out of this passage is related.  Jesus teaches that we should pray repeatedly for those actions we desire God to take.  In a way this is a way to follow Jesus’ directions on building faith.  God wants us to pray for that which we desire.  So, we can build our faith by praying for what we desire until either God grants it to us or we realize God has something better for us.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.