Almost every time I do this journal, it's late at night and after midnight. It's exhausting.
Got the research notes done finally.
I went from being clueless and sucking at pole vault to at least getting a bit of air, landing on the mat, and almost using the pole somewhat properly. One step at a time, slowly but surely, all that jazz.
I found something that was a little bit funny (remember me and secondary definitions, funny not as in comical but as in anomalous) in Matthew tonight. In Chapter Fifteen, verses twenty-one to twenty-eight, Jesus almost lets a Gentile mother down simply because she is not Jewish. When I'm working on a paper about racial discrimination and how it lines up with the Constitution, I've been paying special attention to this kind of thing in what I read. It's fascinating really, but it seems like Jesus almost denied her begging until she displayed such great faith that he seemingly changed his mind about helping her. Was Jesus playing hard to get?
Read http://www.youversion.com/search?q=matthew+15&version=hcsb and let me know what you think. Focus on verses twenty-one through twenty-eight.
"But she came, knelt before Him, and said, 'Lord, help me!'
He answered, 'It isn't right to take the children's bread and throw it to their dogs.'
'Yes, Lord,' she said, 'yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table!'
Then Jesus replied to her, 'Woman, your faith is great. Let it be done for you as you want.' And from that moment, her daughter was cured."
Matthew 15:25-28
What's up?
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ReplyDeleteI realize this is 2 months tardy, but I had only been aware of this blog a couple of days ago.
ReplyDeleteI don't want to stop reading it until I finished it all.
But anyway...
I think He was looking for persistence, for belief that He will help, that she can and will do what she is capable to help her daughter in need. That she isn't going to give up.
Testing her strength.