“A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to Him, crying out, ‘Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is suffering terribly from demon possession!'” (Matthew 15:22).
“We see here, that affliction sometimes proves a blessing to a person’s soul. This Caananitish mother no doubt had been severely tried. She had seen her darling child vexed with a devil, and been unable to relieve her. But yet that trouble brought her to Christ, and taught her to pray. Without it she might have lived and died in careless ignorance, and never seen Jesus at all. Surely it was good for her that she was afflicted (Psalm 119:71).”
“Let us mark this well. There is nothing which shows our ignorance so much as our impatience under trouble“ (J. C. Ryle, Matt 15).