Defiantly Not A ‘Crummy’ Mother

When Jesus went into the region of Tyre in Mark 7, he was trying to keep a low profile.

It didn’t really work.

A mother that had heard of Jesus went to him to help her child. Matthew’s account tells us that she didn’t just ask she pleaded. She cried out. She wouldn’t go away even when Jesus didn’t answer her and the disciples tried to send her away. Even when she was told that Jesus' mission was to first go to the Jews, she begged for the ‘crumbs that would fall off that table’. After all that, Jesus couldn’t say no. He sent her home knowing that her daughter was now cured.

We need more mothers like that. Mothers that know what their children need most of all is Jesus. Women who don’t let obstacles and hindrances keep them from getting what they need for their children. Mothers who will take anything as long as it comes from the Lord.

I know some moms that remind me of this woman. Women who ‘wrestle’ their children to church each week, fight thru all kinds of hindrances and may only get a few “crumbs” out of the lesson. Yet they soldier on know that the faith they are instilling in their children will make all the difference.

What a mother we see in this text, one who never let anything keep her child from the healing only Jesus can provide. What mothers we see today that lead their children to the Lord!

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