“所以你们要警醒，因为不知道那日子和那时间。”
马太福音 25:13
“Be on the alert then, for you do not know the day nor the hour.”
Matthew 25:13
“I’m hungry,” said her eight-year-old daughter. “I’m sorry,” Amy said, “I don’t have anything for you. Let’s play tic-tac-toe.” They had been waiting over an hour for the bride to arrive at the church for what was supposed to be a noon wedding. As she wondered how much longer it would be, she hoped she could occupy her daughter until the wedding started.
As they waited, Amy felt like they were enacting a parable. Although the vicarage where they live is a stone’s throw from the church, she knew if she went to fetch some crackers, the bride could come at any moment and they would miss her entrance. As Amy employed many distraction techniques with her hungry daughter, she also thought about Jesus’s parable about the ten virgins (Matt. 25:1–13).
Five came prepared with enough oil for their lamps to stay lit as they waited for the bridegroom, but five did not. Just as it was too late for her to dash back to the vicarage, so it was too late for the young women to go and buy more oil for their lamps.
Jesus told this parable to emphasize that we need to be prepared, for when He comes again we will give an account over the state of our hearts. Are we waiting and ready?
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