Faith that pleases Jesus
Do you have faith? A confident expectation in your spirit-man of who God is and what His will is? In Mark 7, Jesus encountered the Syro-Phoenician woman. She was desperate for her daughter to be set free… and she knew that Jesus could do it!
She was dogged in her faith, tenaciously pressing the issue with Jesus. I have a feeling He was enjoying the moment when she responded well to his statement, “Let the children be filled first, fot it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”
She passed the test of tenacity and faith when she pressed him. “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
There’s a LOT of implication in these verses, but keeping it simple, this gentile woman’s faith pleased Jesus. He couldn’t shake her off her belief that Jesus could and would heal her daughter. His response, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” Her wise intuition of what He was all about brought the result - the freeing of her daughter.
Have a little tenacity in your heart today for whatever you are asking God for. Know who He is and what He desires to do and grab hold. He will respond to your faith!
-Laura Woodworth