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"AVENGE ME OF MY ADVERSARY."ToC<br />
In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared for man.<br />
And in the same city there was a widow that had an enemy, and he had done her<br />
an injury. And she came to the judge and implored him, saying, "Give me<br />
justice; avenge me of my adversary." But he would not. Then the widow came to<br />
him every day and cried, "Give me justice;" but still he would not for a long<br />
while. At last he became wearied of her constant cry, and he said within himself,<br />
"Though I fear not God nor care for man, yet, because this widow troubleth me<br />
with her complaint, I will avenge her; lest by her continual coming she weary<br />
me."<br />
And Jesus said, "Hear what the unjust judge saith. And if he, who was an<br />
unjust judge and a wicked man, would grant the widow's petition, because she<br />
asked so often, will not God, who is good and just, give His children what is<br />
good and right for them? Shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and<br />
night unto Him, though He bear long with them?"<br />
In this parable Jesus impressed upon his disciples the truth that, although great<br />
trials might come upon them, and their lives be in peril, yet they were not to lose<br />
faith in God, or be disappointed because their prayers were not answered at<br />
once. They were to keep on praying; asking God for such things as were right,<br />
and trusting that He would preserve them amidst all their enemies; and in His<br />
own way make them to triumph over their foes. Whatever is best for His people,<br />
God will give them. He cares for the sparrows, and, even more, for those who<br />
love Him.