Behold the bridegroom cometh! Behold the bridegroom cometh! this has just been going through my head all day long, I could just sing it over and over and over again!
because i put myself in a parable, at the midnight hour will my lamp be full, with precious oil and a heart alive, will I be ready waiting for that cry - behold the bridegroom cometh!!
Just finished listening to a message by julie meyer --
When Deborah started her journey, she had a tree and the grumbling, complaining children of Israel. When Deborah finished her journey, she had oil and she arose to save a Nation..
I don't think I had ever heard or at least rememberd a message preached on the need of oil. How important it is to just say "yes God - I'm yours God - teach me your voice" How all the little yes's in our life just gives us so much oil. Getting to know the one who loves you, trusts you and fills every part of you is where the oil comes from - and what good is a lamp without the oil.
He gave each of us a journey, each of us a lamp. The greatest thing we can do is just say yes to the things he puts infront of us and not to long for someones elses journey. Don't be fooled by someones lamp - its about what's on the inside. Its about the light we give off and not how pretty our lamp is - the difference of being wise and being foolish.
I want to be ready in the midnight hour - i want the oil. Behold the Bridegroom cometh!!!
Matthew 25:1-13
1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3 The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4 The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
6 “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’
7 “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8 The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’
9 “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’
10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.
11 “Later the others also came. ‘Sir! Sir!’ they said. ‘Open the door for us!’
12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’
13 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
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