Luke 18:1-8
Faith of the Persistent Widow
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Matthew 22:23-33
God is the Living God
23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28 Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”
29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven.31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’[b]? He is not the God of the dead but of the living.”
33 When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
Years ago, and we see it in Jesus’ time that God was in the public square and ready to be discussed and talked about.Jesus had many public conversations about God with people...And He had many discussions in the public square how the Pharisees saw and viewed God...
One of the things that He said, that grabbed my attention in these verses, is that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living...God is the God of people living today...The second comment is when Jesus returns in His Second Advent, will there still be faith on earth...
It looks like to me as we are more modern today, that faith is less than a public discussion...It seems like today there are many non-believers who do not believe in God or will not discuss Him in a public forum or in a public view...Especially in a casual conversation as Jesus and the people of His time did...Some believe today live in the current moment and in this current moment, things are always busy (or at least there is always something going on), and God is not here in their moment...It is like we have put God away in an attic...We have put Him in storage and will call upon Him when we need Him...So it seems that He is absent from those parts of the world that store Him in this attic and do not pray or talk to Him...When we need Him, then we will go look for Him...
Jesus was always talking about God...He saw God as the Living God...One was at work today, keeping the universe and the earth finely tuned so that we may live and turn to Him and seek Him...If God is Truly Living as Jesus says, and Jesus would not lie, then He is still here waiting and wondering why we are not seeking Him...