Sun.’s Devo - Being a Wise Virgin

Read: Matthew 25
The parable of the virgins is a parable worth meditating over. There are certain points I want to bring out:
1. they were all virgins
2. they were all waiting for the bridegroom
3. the wise ones took oil with their lamps
4. the foolish took their lamps without oil.
5. they all fell asleep waiting for the bridegroom to come
6. when the bridegroom came the wise poured oil in their lamps and lit them
7. the foolish begged them for oil for theres.’s
8. the wise refused to give up their oil but told them to go and buy some for themselves.
While they were gone, the bridegroom showed up and only took the ones present. They went into the marriage and the door was shut. When they showed up with their oil, the master told them he didn’t know them but they must wait and watch because they don’t know when he is coming.
The wise virgins knew he was coming that day because she had the oil of the Holy Spirit who tells us of things to come. Jesus didn’t come till midnight but they were ready. The foolish didn’t know he would come that day or they would have been ready. Jesus is going to rapture his bride to the marriage ceremony. The rest will have to watch and wait. They won’t know the day he is coming back.
God has given us gifts and talents to use till he comes for us and our gift to him will be the fruit of those gifts. The last parable is of judgment which will be after he comes back to judge the earth. We will be judged by how we loved the least of these.
Lord, help us to see that the responsibility of our fate lies in our own decisions. Choosing to walk in the power and love of the Holy Spirit is the only way to be the bride.