A Crumb From His Hand Is More Than Enough

Matthew 15:21-28

21Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. 22And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. 23But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us. 24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 25Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

A CRUMB FROM HIS HAND IS MORE THAN ENOUGH

Intro: Does anybody in this room have a need in your life? I suspect that everyone under the sound of my voice has many needs. In fact, I would go a step farther and say that most people in this room today have one or more major needs in their lives and they do not see how that need can be met. Some people are looking at devastating family problems. Some are looking at financial difficulty. Some are looking at a problem with a child. Some are looking at their own souls and realizing that they are lost. Some looking at a disease and wondering what lies ahead. Some are looking at their parents and realizing they won’t be here forever. I could literally stand here all day and not exhaust the list of problems that people are facing today. But, in the midst of your problems, you need someone to help you. You need someone you can turn to for your solution. You need God to work in your life. You don’t need Him to lift every burden, just the heaviest. You don’t need Him to move every mountain, just the highest. You don’t need God to give you the whole loaf, just a crumb. That is the situation we are looking at in this passage today. Jesus is approached by a mother who is in a desperate situation. She needs something in her life. She comes to the Lord and as she does, she is not asking for the whole loaf, she is just asking for a crumb. She knows that a little crumb is better than nothing. And as I preach this text today, I want you to get something from it. I want you to know that there is hope for your situation today. No matter what it is you think you need today, God holds the key to it. I want to take this text and the difficult situation of this poor woman and share a few thoughts that teach us that A Crumb from His Hand Is More Than Enough. Let’s look at this passage together and find the help we need for our own lives today.

v. 22 WE SEE THIS WOMAN’S PETITION: This woman came to Jesus because she was concerned about her daughter. The child was demon possessed and was probably acting out in violence and anger. She needed help in a desperate way. The word “cried” in this text speaks of one “crying out, shouting after another.” This woman was following after Jesus and His disciples shouting to Him for the help she needed. Why was she so frantic? Because she was heartbroken over the condition of her child and she was determined to get her child the help she needed. In recording this same event, Mark tells us in Mark 7:25 that this woman had “heard of Him”. Perhaps she had heard about how Jesus had healed all manner of diseases; about how He had opened the eyes of the blind and unstopped the ears of the deaf; about how He had driven the demons from other people. She may have heard about how Jesus had gone over into the country of the Gaderenes and had delivered the man possessed by a legion of demons. She may have said, “If He can deliver that man from a legion of demons, surely He can deliver my daughter from the grip of one devil!” You see, this woman came to Jesus because faith and hope had been sparked in her heart. She needed something that society had not been able to provide. She was looking for something that her dead religion had been powerless to give her. She needed a solution that she had not been able to provide by her own self-efforts. She was desperate and she saw Jesus as her only hope!