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:
What is faith to you? Faith is when you believe
without seeing what you believe. Faith is when you persist to ask the Lord even
if it seems that He is not listening to you.
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 wanted 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.
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 these difficulties? Let us not give up and
let us continue to have faith for the Lord will soon answer our prayer/s with
faith. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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