Truth, Lord

And she said, Truth, Lord: yet… Matthew 15:27

“Agree with the Lord … Whatever Jesus said, she did not contradict him in the least. I like the old translation, ‘Truth, Lord,’ for it is very expressive. She did not say, ‘It is hard, or unkind’; but ‘It is true. It is true that it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. It is true that compared with Israel I am a dog: for me to gain this blessing would be like a dog’s feeding on the children’s bread. Truth, Lord; truth, Lord.’ Now, dear friend, if thou art dealing with the Lord for life and death, never contradict his word. Thou wilt never come unto perfect peace if thou art in a contradicting humour; for that is a proud and unacceptable condition of mind. He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him. It may be said of the Book of God as of its Author: ‘If ye walk contrary to me…I will walk contrary to you.’”

“Pleading, not Contradiction,” Charles H. Spurgeon, 1890