CHARCATER STUDY ~ THE PERSISTENT WIDOW

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Our study for today shall be on the persistent widow. Although her name was not given, the parable is full of lessons and we ought to learn from her. She was a widow in an unnamed city as recorded in Luke 18:1-8. 


Some Characteristics of the Persistent Widow:

✔ She lost her husband who was to stand up to defend her course. In life, we ought to understand that, a time will come when those who stand for us might either rise against us or may not always be with us. We ought to learn to defend our own course with little or no help. Violence is not the key though.   

✔ She sought justice at the right place. She went to the unjust judge in the city saying, 'Get justice for me from my adversary'. We ought not to take the law into our own hands no matter how unfavourable it is going against us. We must seek justice in the house of God or better still from the court like this widow. 

✔ It is recorded that she kept pushing her way for justice such that the unjust judge decided to help her saying, 'Though I do not fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me'. Persistence paves the way if we do not give up. Do not persist in having only material things but also persist for the salvation of your soul. If you have Christ you have all things.

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