is God willing? - taking it further

In Luke 8: 2-5 Jesus tells his disciples a story to help them understand how he feels about their (and our) prayers.

He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'
"For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care about men, yet 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!'

This is often misinterpreted i.e. It’s seen as a story describing our situation; like this: We humans are like the widow (impoverished, helpless, without status, etc). God must be like the judge (uninterested in our situation). If we’re desperate we must pester him and eventually God may give in and have our wishes granted. This assumes that God has a vault of treasures and blessings for us that he’d rather not open. It’s unlikely that Jesus intended to imply that God is a callous judge.

In Luke 18; 7-8 Jesus says:

And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I 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?"

So according to Jesus this story is not meant to be taken literally, instead it is a parable, with puzzling aspects that cause listeners to think. This parable is a study of opposites:

We are not like the widow. She was powerless, forgotten and abandoned. We are none of these things abandoned, we are God's adopted children. We are in God's family and we matter to him.
The judge was crooked, unfair and uncaring. God is not. In Psalm 34: 8 King David (the author) says "Taste and see that the Lord is good". We don't need to persuade him to 'bless' us or give us what we need and more... to the contrary God wants to bless us and he loves to be generous.... it's in God's nature.

God's nature is reflected in the story in Matthew 7: 9-11:

"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Sometimes we may ask ourselves whether we believe that God is willing to help us without looking to see what God is doing already!? One thing is for sure; and that is that the picture that the bible paints of God is a loving, just and holy God who loves to bless his children.