Gospel: Matthew
15:21-28
At that
time, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a Canaanite
woman of that district came and called out, “Have pity on me, Lord, Son of
David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.” But Jesus did not say a word in
answer to her. Jesus’ disciples came and asked him, “Send her away, for she
keeps calling out after us.” He said in reply, “I was sent only to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel.” But the woman came and did Jesus homage, saying,
“Lord, help me.” He said in reply, “It is not right to take the food of the
children and throw it to the dogs.” She said, “Please, Lord, for even the dogs
eat the scraps that fall from the table of their masters.” Then Jesus said to
her in reply, “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish.”
And the woman’s daughter was healed from that hour.
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Reflection:
How do we
define our faith in Jesus? It’s when we don’t give-up on what we want from
Jesus. We continuously badger Him until He gives in to our prayer request for
Him.
The Canaanite
woman had this kind of faith, she never gave-up on her prayer request for Jesus
to heal her daughter tormented by a demon. There were many obstacles against
her foremost of this was her being not a Jew but it did not matter to her. She
persisted and she even argued with Jesus until she passed Jesus’ examination of
her faith on Him. After which her daughter was healed by Jesus.
This
gospel relates with our own journey of faith in Jesus also. We could be that Canaanite
woman who badgered Jesus no end until she got the healing that she wants for her daughter.
However, unlike the woman from Canaan who persisted until the very end we may not have the will to badger Jesus. We may have quit already and said to ourselves, I give-up on my prayer for Jesus because He seems to be deaf. What we do not know is it's just a part of the testing of our faith.
However, unlike the woman from Canaan who persisted until the very end we may not have the will to badger Jesus. We may have quit already and said to ourselves, I give-up on my prayer for Jesus because He seems to be deaf. What we do not know is it's just a part of the testing of our faith.
Every
trial that we go through is our own test of faith we may be going through some trials right
now. We may be asking ourselves, why am I going through this difficulties? Let us
not give-up and let us continue to have
faith in Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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