"The foolish maidens said unto the wise, Give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out" Matthew 25: 8
Never allow your thoughts and doctrines blind you to the solemn warning which our LOrd brings out in this parable. 'Our lamps' cried the five maidens 'are going out'....
They had oil once, they shone once, they were once filled; but now they have gone out by their own fault; the light had grown dim until it ebbed out altogether.
Fellow Christian we may live in Christ, but life may ebb; we may trust the LOrd, but trust may become unbelief; we may walk in the paths of righteousness, but may turn aside. Life communicated to us by the Holy Spirit, to all intents and purposes will die unless the channel of communication be kept clear.
Those lamps burned until the bridegroom came, but at His approach they shivered into darkness. There is a Christian profession which passes muster in most situatioins, but in the light of His appearing will shrivel into darkness...Our lamps are going out!
My friends, it is a slow process: the flame does not die into darkness in a minute. There are stages: the flame changes colour, it begins to flicker, then it begins to shiver. The only a smouldering red line appears across the top of the wick; there are little twinkling lights like stars, and one by one they go out and in their place there is only smoke and an unsavory smell.
Like the ebbing of a tide, like the fading light of a long summer day, the dripping of blood from a fatal wound, the process of extinction creeps on until we are paralysed and we die.......Our lamps are going out.
If the oil is burning low, get back to the cross and ask Him to light 'the flame of sacred love on the mean alter of your heart'
Never allow your thoughts and doctrines blind you to the solemn warning which our LOrd brings out in this parable. 'Our lamps' cried the five maidens 'are going out'....
They had oil once, they shone once, they were once filled; but now they have gone out by their own fault; the light had grown dim until it ebbed out altogether.
Fellow Christian we may live in Christ, but life may ebb; we may trust the LOrd, but trust may become unbelief; we may walk in the paths of righteousness, but may turn aside. Life communicated to us by the Holy Spirit, to all intents and purposes will die unless the channel of communication be kept clear.
Those lamps burned until the bridegroom came, but at His approach they shivered into darkness. There is a Christian profession which passes muster in most situatioins, but in the light of His appearing will shrivel into darkness...Our lamps are going out!
My friends, it is a slow process: the flame does not die into darkness in a minute. There are stages: the flame changes colour, it begins to flicker, then it begins to shiver. The only a smouldering red line appears across the top of the wick; there are little twinkling lights like stars, and one by one they go out and in their place there is only smoke and an unsavory smell.
Like the ebbing of a tide, like the fading light of a long summer day, the dripping of blood from a fatal wound, the process of extinction creeps on until we are paralysed and we die.......Our lamps are going out.
If the oil is burning low, get back to the cross and ask Him to light 'the flame of sacred love on the mean alter of your heart'
