fishing

Friday August 21st , Matthew 15: 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon-possession." 23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, "Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us." 24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel." Every gone fishing? Jesus has just finished the Kingdom is like discourse where the mustard, leaven and net are equated with the kingdom in that they are common, unclean, and get into our lives. Jesus just finished demonstrating the Kingdom in the feeding of the 5000 where a little goes a long way when there is sharing and people are not worried about what is clean and unclean. Now this woman, this Canaanite woman, this unclean woman who is not of the faith, comes crying. Not yet, not yet, don’t pull up yet. The disciples ask to have her sent away, Jesus responds with justification by narrowly interpreting his mission, not yet, not yet………… let the bait sit there a little bit longer…… not yet!!!!!!