The Persistent Widow and Jesus forgiveness

Summary

So let me ask what is it we are praying for? What was he widow asking of the unjust judge? What should weak of the just judge, of God?  Justice against the enemy.

Yet there is a related question that we need to ask ourselves. Are we simply to pray for justice against our early opponents? Or, are we to pray for justice against our eternal enemy ?

In the end our greatest enemy is death, right ? The death that is justified because of our sins is our enemy, our eternal enemy.

Over the eons, throughout all of human history death is the enemy against which we humans have rebelled, and even sought justice. Yet, how can we find justice against such an enemy as death? We cannot overcome it. We cannot defeat it. How can our persistence pay off against the enemy that is death?

It can only be effective by appealing to the just judge … who is God. We hear God speak about his role as the just judge through the prophet Jeremiah’s words in today`s first reading.  The following words are the definition of a just judge, “I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.”

Then Jesus did all that he could, by going to the cross and giving his life, in order that we might live, rather than suffer the eternal costs of our sins. Jesus went to the cross and died for us, in order that we might be judged justly, by grace.

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