SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT? Take heart, friends...
"And shall not God avenge His own elect, which cry day and night to Him, though He bear long with them?" — Luke 18:7 [KJV] This question implies the strongest assertion. Thus our Lord concludes a parable He had delivered to this end, "that men ought always to pray and not to faint." Our Saviour well knew how ready His disciples' hands are to hang down and their hearts to grow languid and faint, so as to be remiss in this duty. Therefore His loving heart would stir up and encourage them to a constant perseverance in prayer; assuring them that God's ears are ever open to their cry, and His omnipotent arm would most certainly avenge the enemies of His own elect, and surely deliver them from all their troubles. Hath the Lord loved His people with an everlasting love? hath He chosen them in Christ Jesus from before the foundation of the world? hath He given them the precious faith of His own elect, and the cry of His children, Abba, Father? and sha