God's Timing

# 471 - Today's Living Word comes from: Mr 7:24 “From there He arose and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. And He entered a house and wanted no one to know it, ”

Have you ever stirred up a hornets nest? What did you do after riling them up? You beat feet out of there before they could do to you what they wanted to do. Jesus had just riled up the scribes and Pharisees as He had pointed out their sins and subsequent hypocrisy. They were likely mad as hornets and Jesus decides to leave for Gentile country.

It's not that He was afraid of them, (He would put Himself into their hands soon enough) its just that HE would be in charge of the timing of His death and resurrection, and not them.

Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician cities located on the Mediterranean Sea. They were well noted for their wickedness and immorality. With the Pharisees aversion to external uncleanness, Jesus would not be followed here by the Pharisees.

But there is another reason that Jesus came to these cities. He had a divine appointment to meet with a faith filled Gentile woman, and a very important lesson to teach His followers concerning the orderly flow of the Gospel and it's associated blessings.

Consider God's concern for timing as we begin to look at this account of the deliverance of this syrophoenician woman's daughter, and then let us learn to wait for Him to act in our own situations. Ps 145:15 says, “The eyes of all wait for thee; And thou givest them their food (what they need) in due season.”

I'm Duane Matz and that's Today's Living Word.