Overcoming Weariness (Luke 18:7-8)

 

Have you felt weary in your faith lately?  Not wanting to pray much?  Having a hard time going strong?

I have and I was wondering if others felt the same.  We are certainly in the last days, and it would make perfect sense if Satan, the enemy of our soul would work weariness in the believer’s spirit.  Judging by the following scriptures it would seem accurate.

In the Parable of the judge and the widow intended as a lesson of perseverance in prayer by Jesus we see that the unjust judge rendered a just decision in the end.  So, don’t you think God will surely give justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night?  Will he keep putting them off?  I tell you; he will grant justice to them quickly! But when the Son of Man returns, how many will he find on the earth who have faith? (Luke 18:7-8)

We must persevere in our faith by removing the distraction and weights that make us weary of well-doing.  The things that may make us weary are the constant attacks of the enemy or the boredom of our lives.  The love of money and the lack of thereof.  We need to pick ourselves by the bootstrap and go forward in prayer and not give up unlike the widow in this parable.  We are doing it for God’s sake and not for ours.  Selfish living can also make us weary. Any kind of chains hanging from our ankles can make us weary. 

Fill us with your continued grace and joy, Lord?

Our focus has to change from ourselves to the Lord and to other people in doing good deeds for them.