EXCERPT FROM "IN THE EYE OF THE STORM"  


    The woman is desperate. Her daughter is demon possessed.
    The Canaanite women has no right to ask anything of Jesus.
She's not a Jew…She’s not a disciple…She offers no money for the
ministry…She makes no promise to devote herself to the missionary
service.
    You get the impression that she knows as well as anybody that
Jesus doesn’t owe her anything, and she is asking Him for everything.              

But that doesn’t slow her down. She persists in her plea……."
Have mercy on me!"
    Matthew notes that Jesus says nothing at first. Nothing, He
doesn’t open His mouth. Why?…..To test her?
    Most commentator suggest this.
    Maybe, they say, He is waiting to see how serious she is about
her plea..
    My dad used to make me wait a week from the day I asked him
for something to the day he gave me his answer. Most of the time, I
forgot that I ever made the request. Time has a way of separating
whims from needs. Is Jesus doing that?.
    I have another opinion. I think he was admiring her. I think that
it did His heart good to see some spunky faith for a change. I think
that it refreshed Him to see someone asking Him to do the very
thing He came to do—give great gifts to unworthy children.
    How strange that we don’t allow Him to do it more often for us!
    Perhaps the most amazing response to Gods gift is our reluctance
to accept it.

We want it.... But on our terms.
    For some odd reason, we feel better if we earn it. So we create
religious hoops and hop through them, making God a trainer, us His
pets, and religion a circus.
    The Canaanite woman knew better. She had no resume. She
claimed no heritage. She had no degrees.
    She knew only two things:---her daughter was weak, and Jesus
was strong………This is an excerpt from …Max Lucado…"In The
Eye of The Storm."           David…