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From that place he went off to the district of Tyre. He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him. She came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by birth, and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
He said to her, "Let the children be fed first. For it is not right to take the food of the children and throw it to the dogs."
She replied and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's scraps."
Then he said to her, "For saying this, you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter." When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed and the demon gone.
In this story, Jesus does not seem at all kind. This desperate mother comes to him, and he equates her request with giving food to dogs. (Which the Jews thought were unclean animals.) Yet, he applauds her faith and gives her heart’s desire - the health of her daughter. She has been enshrined as the model of persistence in prayer and faith.
When have you felt ‘rebuffed’ by God? What has your response been? Is faith more difficult when your requests are not fulfilled?
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