I love this verse. As I read it today it stood out to me so much. Christ was approached by a man whose child had a dumb spirit and he asked Him (Christ) if he would have compassion on his child and cast out this spirit that was in him. Christ told him this verse, "if thou canst believe, all things are possible."
This is such a powerful message to all of us because we today lack faith. Here we are told that if we just believe having a little hope then we will come to see that all things are possible. But we must believe first, Christ takes that belief or hope and runs with it because he knows that we are trying and we desire to have the faith required to come unto him and be changed.
Faith is the first principle of the gospel. Many of us struggle with this understanding of faith and we don't know how to have faith, but Christ here is referring to faith when he says believe. Believe is a hope of something that good will happen, this hope is in fact an aspect of faith. Faith is believing in something for the better good of things, its believing that God is real and that through him he can do all things. If we just believe things will be good and we believe that he can do all things he will bless us to know and see that they will happen.
What do you believe in?
