NINE! ONE! ONE!

Five foolish sisters weary from waiting, “No telling when He’ll come.

Let’s sleep awhile, our journeys just begun.

There’s plenty of time before the bridegroom comes.”

Waking early in the afternoon they yawn, “There’s no need to rush

Let’s eat, drink and be merry, since it’s only us.

Our other sisters have lots of oil, if ours runs out…

I’m sure they’ll help us; I have no doubt!”

The foolish sisters spend their days, watching TV, shopping for new clothes

“Oh, I love that, I’ll also take one of those.

Let’s go out to eat, and a movie does sound nice.”

What a terrible sacrifice…

If only they’d listened and obeyed the Lord…

But they gave up their inheritance, while in a narrow-minded trance…

Not knowing this night, would be their last chance…

Five wise sisters preparing every day,

For their bridegroom to arrive

While keeping their lamps lit and fully alive…

Praying and seeking, what the master desired of them

Lovingly bowing humbly, before Him…

They watched! They waited! They kept extra oil just in case

Because when He finally came, they’d be ready to make haste!

Shouts of rejoicing, “The Bridegroom is, here!!!

Come now sisters, let us draw near…”

But the five Foolish Sisters’ oil, had run dry… “It’s too late, we have no oil. Let us go and buy.”

But it was midnight and the market was closed. So, they began to cry…

“Please give us just a little of your oil, Wise Sisters, please help us on our way!”

“We’re sorry, Foolish Sisters, the Bridegroom is here today, and if we give you our oil, we too will have to stay…You should have been ready…You had time, but you wasted it on worldly things, this is what disobedience brings!”

The Bridegroom and his Bride enter the Grand Ballroom! All those who were ready were there too!

Pounding, outside the door, screams of, “LET US IN! LET US IN!”

The door is shut and cannot be opened…

There’s an alarm sounding…the signs are all there…WAKE UP! WAKE UP! Stop being deceived by what you see, hear and think! Listen to Holy Spirit, be filled with more of Him! Shake yourself, Turn Around and Return to your first Love!

Learn the lesson of the story…don’t be as the five foolish ones, keep your lamps full of oil and be Holy. Stay alert, be wise and ready, for the bridegroom will return for those who have their lamps full, those who are wise and are waiting and watching for Him!

Jesus said, I will come again! (John 14:3)

~Marla Shaw O’Neill September 11, 2024

Matthew 25 1-13 New King James Version The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins

“Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

“And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

“Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

“Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.