The next day, the phone rings, and the same, sweet voice pleads for you to donate to her worthy cause. You tell the lady that you will think about it. I ll donate something just to get her off my back. This is a prime example of what the judge in the parable seems to have experienced. This parable contrasts God and the judge and shows what God is not like.
Faith requires different responses from the widow and the judge.
This parable is also an encouragement to trust God and pray for justice when we see things going on in the world that we disagree with. Verse eight promises a quick deliverance, so we wonder when deliverance will come. We must remember though, that it does not promise an immediate deliverance, but a quick one. When God decides to send deliverance, it will be quick, not necessarily immediate. Though the vindication comes quickly, there is doubt whether individuals will maintain their faith.