May 15, 2026 - Luke 17:5-10

Luke 17:5-105 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”6 He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.7 “Suppose one of you has a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Will he say to the servant when he comes in from the field, ‘Come along now and sit down to eat’? 8 Won’t he rather say, ‘Prepare my supper, get yourself ready and wait on me while I eat and drink; after that you may eat and drink’? 9 Will he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? 10 So you also, when you have done everything you were told to do, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”NOTE: We conclude the week with a poignant teaching by Jesus in response to the apostles request for Jesus to “Increase our faith”. Jesus says that their faith … even though it may be small… is enough to serve Him… even when it takes all we have to keep serving…. Even when it feels like we are a “slave”… serving will be like that sometime. Entrusting ourselves totally to Him who has “bought us with a price” will mean this level of surrender at times.