faithful alignment
What challenges in the world, or your community, offer opportunities to strengthen your faith(fulness)?
Luke 18:8
“I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
The parable concludes with a challenge to the people: unlike the unjust judge, the character of God is kind and faithful, and not subject to wavering personal grievances or prejudice.
The question is, will God’s people, and the whole earth, respond with faith? The Greek word for faith more so implies faithfulness—not just an alignment of one’s beliefs, but an alignment of one’s life: a devotion to God and the way of Jesus, rooted in a rugged trust.
Amidst the oppressions of the Roman Empire and religious establishment, the people needed reassurance that not only was God faithful, but following the way of compassion and justice was a way to realize God’s liberation.
What challenges in the world, or your community, offer opportunities to strengthen your faith(fulness)?