Many of the experiences of our lives can have meaning and purpose if we desire for them to be so. For our experience is just that: Ours. It shapes and influences each of us in unique ways quite like nothing else.
It is something we might refer to as formation.
Our frustrations act out our base desires and expectations regarding how we believe things ought to be.This is as true for us as for the apostles when they asked Jesus to give them more faith. They must have been frustrated with where they were. And as we see, this request bred a Jesus who expressed loudly his own frustration with the apostles as well.
How was Jesus' answer an answer regarding their formation?
Luke 17:5-10
17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"
17:6 The Lord replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
17:7 "Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, 'Come here at once and take your place at the table'?
17:8 Would you not rather say to him, 'Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink'?
17:9 Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded?
17:10 So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!'"
Walter Morton for Journey Across the Line
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