One of the most overlooked parables in the Bible is the
parable of the widow and the unjust Judge. The widow cried unto the Judge to avenge
her of her adversary troubling him. The Judge himself being unjust had no
reason to help her, but because she continually wearied him he did. “Then shall
not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear
long with them. I tell you he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the
Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth.” (Luke 18:1 – 9)
The Lord does answer our righteous and sincere prayers
speedily. It seems a long time when we are praying for things that require
another person’s agency or other things we don’t understand. Even then I think
our loving concern helps for an individual whose problems of which we know not
the depth and berth. We may not see the change because we want the individual
to fit into some description we call normal.
For example, my
husband suffered for thirteen years with depression, but would not get help because
he himself had a PHD in Psychology. I don’t think my thirteen years of praying
for him was wasted. I think that despite his depression he had bright spots because
of those prayers. He never got the medication for the specific cause of his depression
because that was his choice. Neither I
nor the Lord could do anything about that.
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