NOTES for Luk 18:7-8

In every age people ask this question: does God defend His chosen ones? If yes, then why do good people perish; and if not, then where is His love? Such questions are especially frequent after terrible catastrophes. Indeed, even if we have already understood that it is not God who brings these horrors, that all this is the consequence of sin, either directly or indirectly, as in the case of natural disasters: "the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now" Rom. 8:22, the question of protection still remains.

Jesus does not give a direct answer, but points us in the right direction for reflection: "When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?" For God to be able to give His protection, our trust in Him is needed; we must completely entrust our life into His hands. Have we done this when asking for protection, or are we still counting on His help, but on our terms? For example, have we at the same time accepted His view of what human life is, or do we inwardly insist on our own understanding of it first of all as physical life? After all, what God's protection is depends above all on this!