Could We Begin To Help The Foolish Virgins?
When next you read the story of the ten virgins in Mathew 25:1-13, I suggest you pause a bit and reflect on how much happier the groom and all the virgins would have been if all the ten virgins made it.
Rather than wishing you were just one of the five wise virgins, go further to see yourself going to the waiting room with extra oil to give out in the Spirit of sharing one another’s burden.
See yourself fighting off the slumber (they all slept) and rousing the rest with praises, exhortations, and warning of the imminent coming (return) of the Groom.
The truth is that Jesus does not want us to stop at being wise but he also wants us to see where the foolish ones need help and so stoop down to help them. He wants us to go to the extent of laying down our lives. “Herein we see the love of God, because he laid down his live for us, we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1Jn3:16)
Paul expressed this passion for lost souls in his letter to the Romans, “For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. (Rom9:3)
If one wise virgin could lay down her life for one foolish virgin, hell shall be plundered and heaven populated. Could we begin to try it prayerfully?
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