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Don't Give Up

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August 23, 2008|2:56 pm

Read: Luke 18:1-8

"And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night?" (v. 7)

At day's end a salesman was finally admitted to see the boss, and he proceeded to make a big sale. "Consider yourself lucky," said the boss. "Five salesmen tried to meet with me today, and I refused to see them." With tireless enthusiasm the salesman smiled and said: "I know. I'm them!" Persistence pays off.

The widow persists, sustained by a belief that she has been wronged. She refuses to accept injustice, because she knows that there is justice. She refuses to accept wrong, because she knows that there is right. She knows that she is right. She believes that what has been denied to her is also available to her, and the reality of the coming vindication helps her to endure the reality of her present poverty. The widow refuses to be defined by her present circumstances.

Don't allow your present circumstances to define you. There is a judge who will hear you. Not an unjust judge, like the one in the parable. He gives the woman justice, after all, not because he sees the merit of her case but because the woman wears him down. If a scoundrel like that will give the woman justice, how much more will God hear the pleas of his people!

Prayer: Lord, hear my pleas.

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