Verse 18!

I know I just posted a little while ago but this will be quick, relatively speaking. I have still been doing my Siesta Scripture Memory Verses, I just haven't been updating my box very well. We are up to 18! Even though a verse every two weeks doesn't sound like a whole lot, it really adds up. That is already 18 verses more than I would have memorized if I hadn't taken this small step. And while I don't have all of mine completely memorized (word perfectly with references is my "completely", in every case if I read the first word or two, I can finish it on my own.

This time, I wanted to take a verse from a parable I have claimed recently. I have it written somewhere that is currently unaccessible and I couldn't remember the reference so I just googled "parable judge nagging lady" and lo and behold, I found it! The NIV bible calls in the parable of the persistant woman but I find the line between persistance and nagging is quite thin.

The whole thing is longer than I want to memorize right now so I just picked a verses from the middle that summarizes the lesson but I wanted to post the whole thing for y'all me. My memory part is in bold.

¹Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. ²He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. ³And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

⁴"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, ⁵yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming!' "

⁶And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. ⁷And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"

Luke 18:1-8