Oct 13, 2025
When have you—or when has someone you know—had to keep pushing for justice when the system didn’t seem to care?
Luke 18:1-8
A widow begs for justice
18:1Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.
18:2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people.
18:3In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my accuser.’
18:4For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone,
18:5yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’”
18:6And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says.
18:7And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them?
18:8I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
The widow didn’t accept injustice quietly. She made the judge uncomfortable. She kept coming back—until he acted. That was faith that shames silence, exposes injustice, and wears down indifference. This week, we ask ourselves: “Where am I being called to ‘persist in faith’?”
- Who around me is being ignored, and how can I help their voices be heard?
- What system needs to be shamed into justice—not with cruelty, but with truth?
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