Jesus told
his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without
becoming weary. He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither
feared God nor respected any human being. And a widow in that town used to come
to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary. For a long
time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that
I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps
bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and
strike me.’ The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says.
Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day
and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that
justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find
faith on earth?”
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Reflection:
Do You always
pray with persistence? Meaning you pray and pray and never lose heart until you
have what we’ve been praying for. Jesus in our gospel is teaching us that we
must be persistent in prayer. Even if what we’ve been praying seems impossible we
still have to persistently pray because the impossible becomes very much possible
with God.
In our gospel
there’s the presence of a heartless judge who feared and respected no one. Yet
when he was pestered by the widow for a just decision he gave. Why? Because the
widow did not give up.
If we are in
the shoes of the widow and we know that this judge is impertinent would we
still pursue our request for a decision? Or we simply give up and if possible
request for another judge who would be more sympathetic to our plight?
When we have
a prayer request before God we must always have the motivation to humbly
request God again and again to grant us what we want to have from Him. Never
mind if it will take time before God answers what is important is we continue
to pray and we never give up. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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