Indeed, procuring the supernatural help of God is exactly the point of Jesus' parable in Luke 18. Understanding God's Delays Our Heavenly Judge will not delay long over His elect, but He will delay. The Lord incorporates delays into His overall plan Delays work perseverance in us. So crucial is endurance to our character development that God is willing to delay even important answers to prayer to facilitate our transformation. Thus, we should not interpret divine delays as signs of divine reluctance.
Delays are tools to perfect our faith.
Christ is looking to find a tenacity in our faith that prevails in spite of delays and setbacks. He seeks to create a perseverance within us that outlasts the test of time, a resolve that actually grows stronger during delays. It is significant that Jesus compared His elect to a widow harassed by an enemy. The image is actually liberating, for we tend to conceptualize the heroes of the faith as David or Joshua types-individuals whose successes obscure their humble beginnings. But each of God's servants has, like the widow, a former life that is replete with reasons to fail and full of occasions to waver.