Post by Les Brewer on Dec 27, 2023 15:53:57 GMT
*_WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM TARRIED!!!_*
Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
- Matt. 25:1-13.
Compliment of the season to us all! You might be in the mode of celebration of the season and perhaps in a retreat either personal retreat or cooperate retreat. May the blessings of this season be multiply unto us all in Jesus Name!
Glory to God Almighty for seeing another season of the year as this. May the name of the Lord be praised now and forever in Jesus Name!
While the bridegroom tarried is what the Lord is confronting us this moment and this season. Many of us believers started out genuinely and fervently, serving the Lord with great zeal and with great expectation that the Lord will come at any moment. The joy of seeing and meeting with the Lord keeps us running and serving the Lord with all our hearts but WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM TARRIED, the zeal and the enthusiasm of being a believer has beginning to go down.
The issue here, like the ten virgins in our text above is that, many of us have started our Christian life on a serious note and genuinely with every zeal and fervently serving the Lord, expecting the coming of the Lord at any time and of a truth we are beginning to count years in the Lord as a believer and in serving the Lord but while our bridegroom tarried, while the Lord we are expecting and waiting for did not come as we expected, like all the virgins in our text there is slumbering already. The zeal and the fervency are going down, and you are beginning to take back what you have rejected before. You have began to condole and consider things you saw in the light of the word of God as abomination to a believer as things not harmful again to your Christian life and faith. This is a slumber while we wait the coming of the Lord our bridegroom!
Today is another moment that many in the name of celebrating the birth of Christ will slumber into sin and into different forms of immoralities.
Today, many will want us to talk about the birth of Christ, which would have been wonderful to talk about that love that brought Him down for us, but what the Lord is seeing, is the slumbering of His saints who ought to be at alert, watching His return but are occupied with hearts being overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that the Lord’s return come upon them unawares.
Beloved! Have you entered the state of slumbering? Are you beginning to consider what was outright sin as not too bad now? That is slumbering, and the moment of slumbering is a critical moment that make us unaware of the Lord’s coming.
May God Almighty deliver us from every form of slumbering, that we will be awake and alert and also be holily ready for the coming of the Lord in Jesus Name!
Have a wonderful and a blessed day!
Compliment of the season to us all once again.
God bless us all.