Pray and Don’t Give Up
“Yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.” – Luke 18:5 I hope you’ve been following along over the past several days as I continue to emphasize a vital lesson: ask, and keep asking! Remember, repetition is the mother of learning—if you want to truly understand something, you must hear it again and again. In Luke 18, Jesus shared a parable to teach that we should always pray and never give up. He described a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor cared what people thought—a truly difficult character. In that same town, there was a persistent widow who kept coming to him, pleading, “Grant me justice against my adversary.” The story continues: “For some time, the judge refused. But finally, he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God