Come As You Are And Receive

Matthew 15:27
27And she said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

Come as you are to the Lord with your need, and lean on His unfailing and unconditional love for you. You don’t have to pretend to be more than what you are to receive the blessing you need from God. You don’t have to pretend to be someone else to appear more deserving to receive from God.

A Canaanite woman desperately seeking healing for her demon-possessed daughter came to Jesus. (Matthew 15:22–28) Knowing that Jesus healed and did miracles among the Jews, she pretended to be a Jew, calling out, “O Lord, Son of David!” (Only the Jews addressed Jesus as the “Son of David”.) Jesus answered her not a word. His silence made her drop her pretence and cry out, “Lord, help me!”

Only when her pretences melted away did she see the grace of God extended to her. Jesus made a way for her to receive her miracle even though it was not time for the Gentiles to receive His blessings. He told her, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”

Though many might be offended at being called a “dog”, this woman was not. She knew then that she could receive healing for her daughter because even little dogs get to eat what falls under their masters’ table. She saw that the crumbs under the Master’s table were enough for a Gentile, a dog, like herself. The Jews saw Gentiles as dogs. But what Jesus meant was that He was called to the Jews, not Gentiles, while He was on earth.

So when the Canaanite woman took her place as the Gentile that she was and simply leaned on Jesus’ compassion for her, her daughter was healed from that very hour.

If God is willing to extend His amazing grace to a Gentile, how much more you, His beloved child! You do not need to stand on any pretentious ground to receive a touch of His grace for your situation. Just come as you are to receive all that you need from Him. Since He has delivered Jesus up for us all, “how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32)