23/05/2023
🌸👼🏻Virgins Can Recognize the Voice of God:
The Lord Jesus once said: “Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened to ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps”📖 (Matthew 25:1–4).🌸 From this verse, we see that when waiting for the Lord’s return, the wise virgins actively took oil in their vessels. Because of that, they weren’t forsaken by the Lord and finally went to the feast of the kingdom heaven along with the Lord. Usually, after reading this scripture, brothers and sisters will think according to their imagination that as long as we often read the Bible, watch and pray, are faithful to the way of the Lord, labor for the Lord, and spread the gospel more, we are preparing oil and we are the wise virgins in doing so. And then when the Lord comes, we’ll feast along with Him. Yet, is the way the Lord approves the wise virgins the same as what we have thought? Let us look back to the Age of Law, before the Lord Jesus came to work, the scribes and Pharisees were longing for the coming Messiah. They not only knew the Bible well, but also clung to the laws and commandments, often prayed to the Lord God and even traveled over land and sea to spread the work of God. If it is as we imagined, the Pharisees practicing like this was preparing oil and they were most qualified to meet the Messiah and receive God’s salvation with what they put out. However, what was the fact? When the Lord Jesus came to work, the Pharisees didn’t recognize that the Lord Jesus was the coming Messiah, but instead, they kept the name of the Messiah and resisted and rejected the Lord Jesus’ work; in the end, they crucified the Lord Jesus and were cursed and punished. From the fact that the Pharisees resisted God and were punished, we can see that it hardly qualifies to be a wise virgin simply by reading the Bible more, watching and praying, holding on to the Lord’s way and working more for the Lord.
Then who are the wise virgins? Let’s have a look at how the Jews and the disciples of the Lord Jesus recognized Him and were approved by Him. We all know that the Bible records the story of a Samaritan woman. When she heard the Lord Jesus say: “For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that said you truly”📖 (John 4:18)🌸, she said to the crowd: “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”📖 (John 4:29).🌸 From these verses, we can see that the Samaritan woman realized from the Lord Jesus’ words that He is Christ, for she knew only God can watch over everything, know man’s innermost secrets, and can speak out all the things that she ever did. No one except God has such authority and power. So, when the Lord Jesus spoke to her about her husbands, she at once recognized He is Christ. From her experience, it can be seen that her wisdom was that she could recognize God’s voice and that once she heard God’s voice, she could accept the truth, and thus gained the salvation of the Lord Jesus. Besides, we can see from the Bible that people, like Peter and Nathanael, also recognized the Lord from His words and thus followed Him.
Through these facts, we can understand that the most critical point to be a wise virgin is to be able to discern the voice of God. 📖Proverbs 9:10🌸 says: “The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” Obviously, to be wise virgins to welcome the Lord’s return, it isn’t enough for us only to pay attention to reading the Bible, praying, and working more for the Lord. In 📖Revelation 3:20🌸, 👑God says⚜️: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” It shows that when God comes again in the last days, He will continue to speak. So it’s absolutely vital to recognize the Lord’s voice. Only those who can recognize God’s voice and take it upon themselves to welcome His arrival are wise virgins, and can attend the feast of the kingdom of heaven together with the Lord. However, those who can’t recognize God’s voice like the Pharisees, and even hate and reject God instead of accepting Him when they hear His voice, are doomed to be forsaken by the Lord.
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