The Healing Silence of God in our Sufferings

Have you ever gone through a season of life where, no matter how faithful in prayer you remain, our Lord seems to be very distant from you? Or, have you been in a season of suffering where your prayers for mercy and relief seem to be met with silence? Journey with Christ long enough and you will encounter one or both of those experiences. Today we hear from the Gospel of St. Matthew15. A Canaanite woman comes to Jesus pleading with Him to release her daughter from demon possession. Her plea is met with silence and then with what would seem to be a rejection of her by our Lord. How does she respond to all of this? As we look at her response to the silence of the Lord, we see how we are to live in Christ when He seems both silent and distant.