I've always had a hard time completely understanding this passage. Mark 7:24-30. This explanation from Elisa Morgan made it very clear. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
"We messed up yesterday. We did worse the day before. We know we'll likely not make it through this day without error. It's not for lack of trying. We try. Our failures have to do with who we are: human.
There was a woman who likewise knew she was undeserving. Coming not from the chosen people of Israel but rather as a Gentile from Syrian Phoenicia, this woman approached Jesus, begging Him to help her daughter, who was possessed by an evil spirit. Acknowledging that she could not fix the child herself, admitting that she didn't deserve His attention because she came from outside the faith....still the woman came.
But notice her request. She wanted the crumbs. The leftovers. She wanted what would have been tossed aside or eaten by dogs. She stood on a scrap of faith, believing that a scrap was enough for a miracle.
At first this request seems ridiculous. Undignified. Humiliating. Looking again, we can find resolve, desperation and great hope in the request. This woman trusted the saving power of Jesus to such an extent that she believed a crumb would suffice. And Jesus declared her puny plea to be a stunning statement of faith.
Where, like this woman,might we beg for crumbs, knowing that in receiving them comes a feast because of faith?"
"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through out all generations for ever and ever Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21
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