The Approach: Receiving God’s Gift of Grace

Martin Luther was amazed and moved by the Syrophoencian woman’s interaction with Jesus. Luther saw the gospel in it. “This woman saw the gospel - that you’re more wicked than you ever believed, but at the same time more loved and accepted than you ever dared to hope…On the cross, the Child of God was thrown away, cast away from the table without a crumb, so that those of us who are not children of God could be adopted and brought in. Put another way, the Child had to become a dog so that we could become sons and daughters at the table. And because Jesus identified like that with us, now we know why we can approach Him” (Timothy Keller, King’s Cross, 89-94).