Title: Mother's Love/Matthew 15:21-18
Contents Mother's love/Matthew 15:21-18
There is a Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany. It houses the remains of Jews who died in the Nazis. But inside, I made a lake called fallen leaves on a round iron plate. There are pictures of young children smiling and barking. It is said that these are pictures of children who had no choice but to die together with their parents at that time. A woman named Elika visits the place. Elika was a baby when her mother was taken to a concentration camp. The mother, out of pity for the child, wraps the child tightly in a cloth and throws it into the country road through a narrow gap in the truck. It is said that when the child grew up like that, he visited the museum, looked at the photos, and cried as he remembered his mother.
I am alive to this day because of love. What kind of love is this love? That love is the love of a parent. It is parental love.
A mother's love is the greatest love.
In today's Bible verse, a woman from Syroboniges appears. This is a foreign woman. This woman is looking for Jesus. He had come to Jesus for his demon-possessed daughter. Having a demon-possessed daughter is nothing to brag about. Rather, it can be shameful and shameful. But this mother came to Jesus out of pity for her daughter.
“Have mercy on me. My daughter is possessed by a demon.” Shout. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Instead of wanting to hide it, she screams and shouts before Jesus to save her daughter.
But Jesus doesn't answer a word.
Then the disciples come and ask that the screaming woman be sent. As Isaiah prophesied, Jesus Himself takes care of our infirmities and sicknesses.
But Jesus says.
“I am not sent anywhere but the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
“It would not be right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”
At that time, the Jews treated dogs as dirty and ferocious animals. This woman was treated like a dog, but she didn't care.
“Yes, Lord, even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
It doesn't matter if you're treated worse than a dog. All he wants is to heal his daughter.
Then Jesus says:
“Woman, great is your faith. It will be as you wish.”
From then on his daughter was born.
This woman endured to the end in her love for her daughter.
1 Corinthians 13 says this about love:
“Love is patient, bears all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” True love can cover his faults, weaknesses, and shortcomings.
Jesus looked at a woman possessed by a demon for 18 years. “I am also Abraham’s daughter.” Love is looking inward rather than outward. In the eyes of parents, children are the most valuable. It's best. That is the heart of parents.
A son of a family committed a great sin and was sentenced to death. Many people point their fingers at him and curse him. But on one side his mother says. ‘My son isn’t like that, he’s nice, but how did he become like that?’
There is a story like this in Japan. There was a husband who loved his wife very much. His wife fell ill and died. But there is only one way to live. If you eat human liver, you will live. After much deliberation, he decides to kill his old mother and brings her liver from a deep mountain. Mother's spirit appears on the mountain road that is rushing down.
‘Son, why are you running so fast? Go slowly so you don’t get hurt. Even if you go slowly, you can save it.’
He said this and disappeared. You can see the deep love of a mother. We are all loved like this. How should a person who has received this kind of love repay that kind of love?
It says in Ephesians 6:1. “Children, obey your parents in the Lord. This is right.”
There is a story like this. There is a rumor that there is a filial son in a family. A person visits the house to check it. The father tells his son to pull the calf up on the roof. The son then beats and urges the calf to go up. ‘My father told me to go up, so why didn’t you go up? Hurry up.’ The father then tells him to leave him alone in the stall.
It doesn't make sense, but as a child, he obeyed his father's words. The Bible says it is right to obey your parents.
“Honor your father and mother, for this is the first commandment with a promise, that it may go well with you and you may live long.” Honoring your parents is a blessing with the promise of well-being and long life. He promised that if we trust and obey our God, our spiritual Father, He will give us abundant blessings. If you serve your physical father well, you will be blessed with good things and a long life.
I pray that you will become blessed saints who serve God the Father well and serve your physical parents well.