Matthew 15:27 And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”
Come as you are to the Lord with your need, and lean on His unfailing
and unconditional love for you. You don’t have to pretend to be more
than what you are to receive the blessing you need from God. You don’t
have to pretend to be someone else to appear more deserving to receive
from God.
A Canaanite woman desperately seeking healing for her demon-possessed
daughter came to Jesus. (Matthew 15:22–28) Knowing that He healed and
did miracles among the Jews, she pretended to be a Jew, calling out, “O
Lord, Son of David!” (Only the Jews addressed Jesus as the “Son of
David”.) Jesus did not answer her. His silence made her drop her
pretense and cry out, “Lord, help me!”
Only when her pretenses had melted away did she see the grace of God
extended to her. Jesus made a way for her to receive her miracle even
though it was not yet time for the Gentiles to receive His blessings. He
told her, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to
the little dogs.”
Many people might be offended at being called a “dog”. Actually, the
Greek word used here by Jesus means “puppy”, and is thus an affectionate
rather than offensive term. So this woman was not offended. In fact,
she knew then that she could receive healing for her daughter because
even puppies get to eat what falls from their masters’ table.
She saw that the crumbs under the Master’s table were enough for a
Gentile, a “little dog”, like herself. You must understand that the Jews
then considered Gentiles dogs. But what Jesus was trying to say was
that He was called to the Jews first, not the Gentiles. Yet, He loved
this Gentile woman and her daughter enough to provide a “loophole” for
them to receive their miracle.
So when the Canaanite woman took her place by dropping the title “Son
of David” and just leaned on Jesus’ compassion for her, her daughter was
healed from that very hour.
If God was willing to extend His grace to a Gentile, how much more you,
His beloved child! You do not need to depend on pretensions to receive a
miracle from Him. Come as you are and lean on His grace. If He has
delivered Jesus up for us, “how shall He not with Him also freely give
us all things”? (Romans 8:32)
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