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Today = Luke 18:18-43 + Genesis 29:31-30:43 + Psalm 24

Finally I'm posting again. I came back late last night and was still planning on posting, but I didn't want to wake my roommate up, so I thought it would be best to just post today. I really hate not being able to post. But it does feel so good when I finally can again.

Though I think I will be focusing on the passage in Luke, which really challenges me, I did want to comment on Genesis. Somehow I never quite remembered this story before, but chapter 30 about Jacob's children is ridiculous! Oh my word I was thinking the whole time, how on earth is this kosher? It's like a really messed up soap opera. yikes. I haven't quite made sense of it all, nor will I ever I think. But anyway...

I am really challenged by the passage in Luke, especially the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector and the Parable of the Persistent Widow:

"Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. he said: 'In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in tha town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.' For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't know fear God or care about men, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' And the Lord said 'Listen to what the unjust judge says. 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? I tell you , he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?'" (Luke 18:1-8)

I think it's easy for me to be lazy and not persistent in my prayer, and in other things as well. But God wants us to ask him, and he will answer! Of course, God's timing is completely different from ours; he's rarely early, always on time, but never late. I've had a few things on my mind, answers to questions that he doesn't seem to be answering. But then again, I haven't been very persistent lately either.