Distractions, a poem and then some words

Distractions, subtractions
from a more superior state
This superficial world
Blurring the truth we are called to wait
On the Lord

Harumph. Recently, within the past few days God slammed me. In a beneficially way, always always in a beneficial way. There's this passage- Luke 17- a parable that Jesus gives to disciples about having faith the size of a mustard seed, that this faith will and can move mountains- that's all it takes. Recently, as in within the past hundred or something years- this message has been distorted, with the idea that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed you can do anything. Boom, Bible close, pastor wraps up and everyone goes home on a cloud fifteen and a half because what they just heard was that through their own faith they can do anything and everything. But the passage continues after that. The passage continues after that as the disciples ask Jesus, ok so increase our faith - and what does Jesus do? (baha) Does Jesus give a pep talk and buy them pizza and soda, or the equivalent thereof does he praise them and encourage them, lead them through some self help meditation in promoting "I" - does he ask them to look inward and find their inner godself? Their power source, tap into the line of selfish ambition with false altruism overtones?

Nope. Instead after Jesus just told them they can heal, and forgive, and all the awesomeness- He drops this on them:

⁵ And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
⁶ So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you. ⁷ And which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’? ⁸ But will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something for my supper, and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you will eat and drink’? ⁹ Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.^{[c] 10} So likewise you, when you have done all those things which you are commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.’”

So boom. Boom. My "faith" being the size of a mustard seed is all I need, because it is not my faith in myself, nor my faith in others- it is my faith in God, my faith in my Master, my Creator- because duh, i'm nothing but an unprofitable servant.