Monday, June 6, 2016

You Think You Know Someone

I ran across this story from the Bible a week ago, and I cannot figure out what to make of it. This Jesus doesn't square with the Jesus in my head. My Jesus isn't racist or snobby or into stonewalling desperate women. So I wanna know how it hits other people, how it makes you feel, and what I must be missing here. What do you make of this? 'Cause as Hillary says, it takes a village. Amen, sister. I know it does for me.

Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

22 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."
23 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."
24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel."
25 The woman came and knelt before him. "Lord, help me!" she said.
26 He replied, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."
27 "Yes it is, Lord," she said. "Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."
28 Then Jesus said to her, "Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted."And her daughter was healed at that moment.

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