A Mustard Seed

Three years ago, I saw my optometrist for a yearly check-up. During the appointment, my optometrist discovered that I had cataracts that should be surgically removed.The pressures in my eyes were higher than normal too, but the optometrist felt that once the cataracts were removed, the pressures would go back down to normal. I was shocked! How did cataracts form so quickly in my eyes and be mature enough to require an operation? I thought only people in their seventies and eighties have cataracts.

My optometrist tried to make me feel better by saying that I should look on the bright side: I won't have to wear corrective lenses anymore. "OK," I thought, "maybe this isn't so bad." My optometrist referred me to an eye specialist and an appointment was made.

I didn't have to wait long. The eye specialist ordered more tests to be done on my eyes. With the results in his hands, he came back into the room I was in, looking very concerned. He was debating whether he should operate or wait. I asked why. He answered by saying that the surgery might cause retinal detachment, since I was born with thin corneas. "OK," I thought, "now this isn't so good." I knew about my thin corneas, but it never really concerned me until then. I now became worried and fearful, even though the eye specialist chose to wait.  During the drive back home, I felt God speak to me and tell me not to worry. He was giving me time to pray. I then felt at peace with my eye specialist's decision.

A few months later, just before I moved here, I asked a lady who spoke at a women's retreat I attended to pray for my eyes. She did and I suddenly felt God's presence surround me. After I moved, my eye specialist gave me a letter of referral and told me to make an appointment to see an eye specialist here to get a second opinion. When I did, I went through another series of tests. These tests scratched my corneas. Talk about pain afterwards! I wasn't too impressed.

When I was escorted to a room to discuss the results of the tests with the eye specialist, he was perplexed. He told me I have no cataracts and that my eyes were healthy. I couldn't believe it! I sat there with my mouth open. I have seen God do miracles many times in my life, but it still always surprises me.

I saw my optometrist again yesterday and, two years later, I still have no signs of any cataracts. Isn't God good? He thrills me!

Why do we pray, ask God for things, and be surprised when he answers? The Bible says that if you have even the tiniest amount of faith, you will be able to move mountains. There will be nothing impossible that God cannot do for you.

"Because you have so little faith.

Truly I tell you,

 if you have faith as small as a mustard see,

you can say to this mountain,

'Move from here to there,'

and it will move.

Nothing will be impossible for you."

Matthew 17:20

I would like more faith, so that when God does do miracles, I won't be so surprised.

My heart's desire is for God to give us a greater amount of faith to pray for miracles, healings, deliverances and restorations. Then the unsaved will be drawn to Christ and many more will be brought into His Kingdom.