Evening: Psalm 78:40-72; Joel 1:15-2:2; Matthew 15:21-28
Jesus’ teaches in parables; and his life embodies the truths his stories tell … A non-Israelite woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter. Shockingly, but I believe deliberately and ironically, Jesus says he cannot give to ‘dogs’ – like this woman – what belongs to his own people, the Israelites. (The Israelites may have used ethnic slurs like the term ‘dogs’ to describe the Canaanites.) Those watching see Jesus first honouring the woman’s faith and then healing her daughter … in spite of her ethnicity. Here, he teaches his own people: I am here for everyone; stop calling your neighbours ‘dogs’.
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