Humble Boldness!

Today’s Reading:  Mark 7:24-30

I have read this story many times and never really understood it completely, and maybe I still don’t, but I did get a message from it.  You know this lady was not considered one of Jesus’ people, she was a Greek, so she didn’t fit in with the group that surrounded him, nor did she fit in with those that followed him and asked for healing….but that did not matter to her.  It seems to me that she had a problem and she knew where to find her answer regardless if it was the ‘appropriate’ thing to do.  This woman fell at the feet of Jesus and begged him to heal her daughter.  She was bold and persistent, yet humble at the same time.  Can we be like this as well?  Should we be like this?  It seems that boldness and humbleness does not usually go together and especially when you describe someone.  Can someone really be bold and humble at the same time?  Yes, as a child of God we are called to be bold about our beliefs, yet be humble in the way we live.  Hebrews 4:16 says ‘Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need’---Isn’t this exactly what this woman did?  Isn’t this what we should do in our time of need?  We fall before his throne with humbleness, but we seek him with boldness because we know without a doubt that he has the answer, that he, himself is the answer!  So when you feel like you may not fit in, don’t let it bother you, be like this woman humble yourself before Jesus and make your request known with confidence that his mercy and grace will find you.