{"id":6572,"date":"2023-09-07T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2023-09-07T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T14:12:08","slug":"musing-through-matthew-little-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=6572","title":{"rendered":"Musing through Matthew- Little Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Let us muse again today after a long absence from Matthew 15: 27 and the theme of Jesus the King. Jesus has just called this lady in great need a dog. She laid hold to the word used here for dog, It is a little household dog and her response is&#8221; truth Lord.<\/strong>&#8220;.<strong>In a Jewish home the household dog often ate from the crumbs dropped from the table. Her declaration is to have crumbs from the Masters table is better than a full meal man can provide from the world&#8217;s table. In identifying as a Gentile dog she recognizes she has no rights to the tables or the crumbs. The crumbs from His table is an act of grace to us Gentiles.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today after a long absence from Matthew 15: 27 and the theme of Jesus the King. Jesus has just called this lady in great need a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}