He Is At Work,vIn Both Plural & Singular

And He said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see the day of the Son of Man, and you will not see it... And He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.... And will not God give justice to His elect, who cry to Him day and night? Will He delay long over them? I tell you, He will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth? Luke 17:22-18:18

Well, this is sort of disappointing.  Reading Scripture in context.  Remembering that punctuation and chapters were not part of the original text.  So suddenly this oft’ repeated tale about the persistent widow doesn’t necessarily mean that we should be persistent in our personal petitions because we do have a judge who is righteous.  It is really addressed to The Elect who are suffering persecution and are brokenhearted over the world’s injustice: the poverty, wars and rumors of wars, child slave trade, corruption in high places, streetfuls of Syrian mourners being machine-gunned down, and about the coming Kingdom and the end times and Justice with a capital letter.  

Or is it encouraging?  It is good to be reminded that God is much bigger and better and broader than we have ever imagined or thought.  And I am not God and thus cannot wrap my brain around things.  Marco said that his grandmother wished that she had not gone to the British Museum because the Egyptian displays upset how old she thought the world was and what about prehistorical times?  And it shook her faith.  And Marco didn’t know how to explain things.  And I don’t either.  I don’t know how all the pieces fit together, but I know that they do because I have seen the Great Puzzle Master at work, patiently and steadily working towards Justice, in and around and through time.  And He is faithful, not only in seeing Justice for the Downtrodden and Those Without Hope, but for the poor widow ladies, one at a time.  Touching each heart with His finger, one at a time.  He is indeed faithful.  

Will I be found faithful?