Keep on Trucking!
April 1, 2010
Luke 18:1-8
It is Maundy Thursday, 2010, the beginning of the great Three Days leading to Easter Sunday, the resurrection of our Lord. It is my hope and prayer that these four days will be very meaningful for every individual who reads these words. In order for it to be meaningful, we are encouraged by today’s parable to look for something blessed to happen to us. Jesus encourages us “to pray always and not to lose heart.” (Vs. 1) There is something about the discipline of treating God as our God every day and telling God our needs and desires that will not return empty. There is something about the discipline of walking with Jesus through each event of the final week of His earthly life prior to the resurrection which will be a blessing to us.
In order to illustrate the need to be in prayer always Jesus tells this parable which has the one point that if we keep on coming to God like the widow coming to a judge for justice, God will answer our prayers. Like yesterday’s parable Jesus encourages persistence. Perhaps we need to think about Jesus’ situation to fully understand this. He is talking about God bringing all people to judgment with the coming of the son of man and is now illustrating that this day is surely coming. He ends today’s teaching session with this phrase: “And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
As the reader of this parable we are encouraged to keep on keeping on. Even when we are challenged by not knowing where it is all headed, we are encouraged that it is headed toward Jesus’ return. And if we have heeded Jesus’ teaching, praying always and looking for His return, surely He will find faith on earth, faith in each and every one of us. As John writes in his revelation at the end of the New Testament: “Amen, Come Lord Jesus!”