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Healing Is the Children’s Bread
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He’ll say, “What are you going to do about this thing I talked to you about five years ago?”
You say, “You want to talk about that?”
“Yeah. When are you going to do that?”
“Yeah but I just want to be healed. Can You just zap me?”
This woman in the story was using different phraseology, but she persisted and worshipped Him
and said, “Help me.”
And what did He say? “It’s not meet,” it’s not right, “to take the children’s bread and throw it to
the dogs.”
What is He referring to as the children’s bread? What has she come asking for? She came
seeking deliverance and healing, for her daughter to be liberated from this torment, and for her
daughter to be healed. You can see later in the passage where it said her daughter was healed.
What does He call it? He calls it the children’s bread. (Matthew 15:26)
She was a Syrophenician, a Canaanite, an ungodly person; she was not a Jewish proselyte. But
today you and I have been born again. We are the children, and the children have bread. What is
the bread? The bread is deliverance from what torments and makes sick, and it is healing of that
which has been damaged. Deliverance, freedom, and healing is called the children’s bread.
I’m glad it didn’t say “the children’s dessert” or “the children’s pie” or “cake,” because we might
have thought it was something special that only a few people got once in a while, if they were
nice enough. No, it is the children’s bread. Everyone is supposed to get bread. Bread is a staple.
Are you really trying to act special when you say, “Can I have a piece of bread?” No. Anyone
should get bread, and that’s what she got a hold of. Anyone should get bread, even if you weren’t
a part of the family, which she was not. He said in verse 26, “It’s not right to take the children’s
bread and throw it to the dogs.”
What did she answer? “Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’
table.”
Now this is saying a lot. Her daughter is grievously vexed. Her daughter is in a mess. But what
does she say? “All I need is some crumbs. If I could just get some bread crumbs, we can be
healed. A slice of this bread is so powerful that all I need is some crumbs.” She said, “The dogs
get the crumbs, don’t they? Crumbs fall off the table. The dogs get them. So, maybe I’m not in
the family, but hey, dogs get crumbs.”
I believe a big smile came across Jesus’ face. He said, “Woman, you’ve got some faith. Great is
your faith. Be it unto you.” And glory to God, her daughter, the Bible says, was delivered and
healed from that hour.