11/8/2022 0 Comments You snooze you lose![]() ![]() Every day is an opportunity to intensify our preparedness to achieve our goal. It is due to their lack of diligence and purposeful preparedness that made them lose their opportunity. They had to run out to get the oil as they did not have enough oil therefore, they could not enter the banquet hall. The first way is to prepare ourselves diligently and purposefully: Those five virgins could not enter the banquet hall with the bridegroom because they were not purposefully prepared for the purpose for which they came. ![]() There are three ways to get ready for our final goal and destination. The parable implies that we should attend to the present moment’s duties, preparing now rather than waiting until it is too late. There will be no depending upon others’ resources on the final day, no begging or borrowing grace. What matters is not the occasional or the last-minute burst of spiritual hunger but habitual attention to one’s responsibilities before God. The universal meaning is that the five foolish virgins represent those who fail to prepare for the end of their lives. The division between the wise and the foolish virgins represents those who keep Christ’s commandments and those who hear his words but fail to do what He commands. The local meaning is that the foolish virgins represent the “People of God” who were waiting for the Messiah but were shut out from the Messianic banquet because they were unprepared. This parable has a local and universal meaning. ” “What matters is not the occasional or the last-minute burst of spiritual hunger but habitual attention to one’s responsibilities before God.” The bridegroom came late at midnight, and when they were called to welcome the bridegroom, the foolish ones did not have sufficient oil in their lamps and could not enter into the banquet hall with the bridegroom. The foolish ones came without sufficient oil in their lamps, whereas the wise ones came prepared with extra flasks of oil. There is a story in the Holy Bible according to Matthew chapter 25:1-13 tells the parable of the ten virgins who came out to meet the bridegroom five of them were foolish, and five were wise. When the tortoise reached the finishing point, the hare suddenly woke up and did all that was possible to finish the race, but it was too late because the tortoise had already won the race. ![]() Meanwhile, the tortoise was making its way slowly and steadily to its goal. Both of them began the race simultaneously, and the hare ran faster in the middle of the race, it turned back to see its competitor was far behind and decided to take a nap before the tortoise was able to catch up in the race. The hare by nature was swifter, but it was snobbish and presumptuous. Once upon a time, a hare and a tortoise decided to run a race. I want to share with you an age-old story of a hare and a tortoise. “If you snooze you lose” in other words, constant preparedness is the key to any success. ![]()
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