Confidence in Jesus

 

  Mk 7:24-30

A Gentile Shows Her Faith

²⁴ From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, but He could not be hidden. ²⁵ For a woman whose young daughter had an unclean spirit heard about Him, and she came and fell at His feet. ²⁶ The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter. ²⁷ But Jesus said to her, “Let the children be filled first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”

²⁸ And she answered and said to Him, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”

²⁹ Then He said to her, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.”

³⁰ And when she had come to her house, she found the demon gone out, and her daughter lying on the bed.

Jesus could not shake the trust and urgency in the Syo-Phoenician's persistent plea, and finally age her what she so desperately wanted, the expulsion of the unclean spirit from her daughter. Her "mother's love" is admirable but even more so is her faith that Jesus could and would drive out the evil spirit. When we ask Jesus to take care of our needs or those of someone else, do we have the same conviction, the same persistence?  Most likely not, so let's follow the example of this good woman and ask her for a share of her faith,  confidence and persistence.

Bro, Rene

Dear God, increase my faith and grant me the gifts of confidence and persistence in my prayer. Amen.