In a land considered pagan, a Canaanite woman receives a gesture of love from Jesus. He understands what a mother’s heart goes through, and knows what she is capable of for her daughter.
Jesus understands this form of love well, because it is the same experience He will live shortly after: enduring insults, scourging, and lies from those for whom He is about to give himself. He knows what it means to love to the utmost.
“Lord, help me!” A simple prayer, born from a humble and poor heart, is capable of changing the course of a situation that seems to have no solution.