Trim Your Lamps

Have you ever used a lantern? Not a Coleman lantern. An older one like the one in the picture, with the wick and the oil in it. Could you light one in the dark? You will have to.

'Trimmed' (ekosmēsan in the Greek language) means "to put in order." In other words, get your lamps ready!

The Parable of The Ten Virgins is all about lamps. However, the lamps represent something - our faith.

The Bridegroom (Jesus) will come for His bride (The Church) when we least expect it. Right now Jesus is preparing 'a place for us' like all bridegrooms did in Gallele.

"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." - John 14:3

Ah, the Rapture of The Church. Can't wait for THAT day. But let's get back to the ten virgins. Half of them were prepared. They had enough oil to way for the Bridegroom. Sadly, half of them didn't have enough oil (faith) to be able to wait.

“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." - Matthew 25:6-10

Do you have enough "oil" in YOUR "lamp?" Do you have enough FAITH in your heart?

"So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him." - Matthew 24:44