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A gentile woman from the land of Canaan understood the idea of grace long before the Jewish race could begin to comprehend it. Jesus didn’t speak to insult her, even though it comes across as harsh and unconcerned, instead, he’s triggering her to articulate her faith. In this articulation, Jesus uses the imagery of food meant for children being tossed to the dogs, for which she says that the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table. This understanding that she possesses of Jesus as her Master, sprung Jesus into action on her behalf, offering her something even though she knew she didn’t deserve it.
There are many times when we don’t know why we are asking God for something, or we ask Him with the wrong motives. It’s in this kind of verbalizing, that we can understand what we are believing for, and where any doubts lie about the power, presence and plans of God. We also realize just how dependent yet undeserving we are of his love, forgiveness and healing.
Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.” He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.” The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said. He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.” “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.
That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.
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