In our midweek assemblies at church, we’re digging through the messages found in the gospel account for that Sunday. So this week we took a deeper dive into Matthew 25. It’s the parable of the wise and foolish wedding attendants.

The story is about 10 bridesmaids who were all excited about the wedding that was to happen. In the frenzy of getting ready, half of them really showed how prepared they were while the other half showed a complete lack of understanding of how this whole night was going to go.

I explain in greater detail in the audio attached below but the gist is simple. Five of them had lamps with extra oil to help them navigate from the bride’s home to the groom’s home where the wedding party was to take place. The other five didn’t have enough oil, so they would not have made it all the way without some kind of trouble.

The five unprepared ones, the ones the Bible calls foolish, then tried to borrow oil from the wise ones. At face value it seems to be a reasonable request. But what they failed to understand is that when you take away from the one who has to give to the one doesn’t have then no one has enough. And essentially the system brings all into a deeper state of want. And it’s all because they weren’t prepared.

So the message Jesus teaches here is to be ready. Be ready for His return all the time. Not just some day off in the distance when he might come back, but today, now, in this moment. Are you ready?

But how do you get ready? For that one, you’ll have to give the following a listen.