CONDUCTIVITY, NOT SIZE. Have you ever seen a mustard seed? You may need a magnifying glass to see it. But the people to whom Jesus spoke knew seeds. They lived in an agricultural world. Jesus spoke their farming language. Today we are a high-tech society, and our expressions are scientific. Jesus spoke the language of the people, and today our expressions come from technology. No doubt today, Jesus would use our common speech.. Jesus spoke two thousand years ago about the mustard seed, a small thing with mighty potency. Maybe today He would talk about a microchip or fuse to illustrate His teaching. “If you have faith as small as an electric fuse, you could transplant trees from the soil to the sea.” Like the mustard seed, the value of a fuse is not in breadth or length. The key is conductivity. Faith transfers the power of God to wherever it is needed. A fuse is made of a metal, such as silver wire, which offers low resistance to current. Low resistance means high conductivity. Translated into spiritual terms: The lower our resistance to the Word, the higher the operational power of God. The higher our resistance to the Word, the lower the operational power of God. Low Word Resistance A fuse with high resistance either carries no power at all or soon blows. When we resist the Word by unbelief, the power of God cannot come through. If we say we believe in the Word, but disobey it, we negate our faith. It blows the fuse. The power of God is low when the Word of God means little to us. Whatever else may be true, one thing is absolutely beyond contradiction— Christianity is a power religion, or it is nothing. Liberals, those teachers of rationalist doctrine, rely on logic. The apostles relied on the power of God. “The world through wisdom did not know God, [yet] it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians 1:21). Our heads can be our doubt box. Reasoning is too uncertain an instrument for vital personal relationships, especially with God. It is like using a shovel—instead of a telescope—to read the night sky. When people turn to science, with its algebraic equations, geology, or philosophic deductions, to approve religious faith, it is ridiculous. What can these things possibly have to do with spiritual experience? Science has no equipment to handle relationship with God. You may as well use a corkscrew to study music. How do we believe, or not believe, in anybody? By mathematics? Have you ever felt that you cannot trust a person but have been unable to explain why? It is just a gut feeling. A higher self, the intuition, was at work, and it triggered an alarm. I do not love thee Doctor Fell The reason why I cannot tell, But this I know, and know full well I do not love thee Doctor Fell. Yet we can believe in someone else for exactly the same reason, but what that is, we may not know. Instinct never warns us against Jesus. When we “get wise” to Him, we want to come closer. Knowing Him better, our hearts are warmed toward Him. “We love Him because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19). What unbelievers say is of less significance than what the barometer says. The proper way, the only possible way, is to trust Him. The effective center of true life is the heart, not the brain. “With the heart one believes” (Romans 10:10). - REINHARD BONNKE ( Faith The Line With God's Power ) - Spiritual Notes