SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/29/2022 10:03 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Lord’s Response”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
15:28
Message of the verse: “28 Then Jesus
answered and said to her, "O woman, your faith is great; be it done for you as you
wish." And her daughter was healed at once.”
We come to the very last verse in this great section
on faith, and as you probably can figure out this will be a very short, but
very important SD, because it has to do with a wonderful healing for this woman’s
daughter. I may have mentioned this in
an earlier SD, and that is that you have to see from what we have been looking
at here that this woman had great love for her daughter. She cared so much for her daughter that she
was taking seemingly difficult words from our Lord to her and she had
constantly kept on pace to have Jesus care for her daughter. I wish women today, in many cases, would care
as much for their children as she does, for in today’s society we have throw
away children as women and men only care for the pleasures of what it takes to
allow God to create an baby and because it may be the wrong sex or because they
consider the baby to be a mistake they kill it.
This woman in this story would have never done something like that for
she really loved her little girl, and it shows it.
MacArthur
writes “After putting up a barrier of silence and then a double barrier of
seeming rejection, Jesus heard what He wanted to hear. Her seeking heart would not give up. Like Abraham, she grew strong in faith
through God’s testing (Rom. 4:20), and like Jacob wrestling with the Lord (Gen
32:26), she would not let go until He blessed her. She fulfilled the pledge of Jeremiah 19:13-14a
“13 ‘And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all
your heart. 14 ‘And I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will
restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the
places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD.’”
I want to look at some verses that I do not believe
that this woman had heard when Jesus preached “The Sermon on the Mount.” “3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for
theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall
be comforted. 5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. 6 “Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”
Without having heard these verses, she came with the humble, mourning, meek and
seeking heart that God requires for the kingdom entrance. She exhibited the attitude expressed in Luke
16:16 of vigorously pressing forward into the kingdom in Luke 13:24 of
striving, struggling, straining every nerve to enter it, and so Jesus has this
to say about her faith: “O woman, your
faith is great.”
Now
as we look at the last part of verse twenty-eight we see that because of her
great faith our Lord delivered her daughter from the demon and we read and her
daughter was healed at once. Charles
Spurgeon observed, “The Lord of glory surrendered to the faith of the woman.” This woman kept asking until she received,
seeking until she found, and knocking until it was opened to her as seen in
Matthew 7:7.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I can learn from this entire section of
Scripture that I am never to give up in fighting the spiritual battles of life.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Remember how this woman fought for what she
truly desired for and do the same as I fight spiritual battles.
7/29/2022 10:30 AM
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