Tuesday August 20
"While the bridegroom
was delayed, they all
slumbered.”
Mt 25:5 NKJV
Midnight Madness (2)
Let’s look at these ten virgins and see what else we can
learn from them. Observe three things: (1) The midnight crowd. "While
the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.” Who slept? The wise
as well as the foolish; the world as well as the church. Paul warns, "It
is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when
we first believed” (Ro 13:11 NKJV). We’re in mortal combat with an Enemy who
observes no truce, no armistice and no peace treaties. The Titanic disregarded
five warnings before it hit the iceberg. The naval yard at Pearl Harbor disregarded
six warnings before it was attacked. Christ is not coming back for the
religious but the redeemed; not for the refined but the regenerated; not the
respectable but the righteous. (2) The midnight cry. "At
midnight a cry was heard: Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet
him!” (Mt 25:6 NKJV). All around us the voices of fear sound. Where can we look
for hope? To government? To bankers? To industry? To academics? No, our hope
can be found in these words: "Looking for the blessed hope and glorious
appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Tit 2:13 NKJV). (3)
The midnight crisis. The urgent message of this parable is: Some will have
enough to get them into the wedding, others will not. So what should you do?
"Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
man” (Lk 21:36).
Taken from the Word for You Today devotional
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