Week 6

Matthew 25: 1-13 is the story of the ten virgins. The simple version is that there were five that had oil in there lamps and five that didn't. When it was time to go to a wedding the five that didn't have oil asked the ones that did and they said, "no we can't share" then they lit their lamps and went to the wedding. When I was younger I always thought this story was unkind, "why can't they just share?" As I got older I understood different things about it; we can't share our testimonies, we need to be prepared, we need to be adding "oil" daily we can't give years of knowledge (adding to their lamps daily) to those that are not ready in just hours. But what came to me this time in reading it was how President Nelson said that we wont be able to make it spiritually if we don't have the Holy Ghost with us. Lamps= light and that's what the Holy Ghost is, so those who's lamps are dark possibly don't have the holy Ghost and in that case you can't just give your gift of the Holy Ghost to someone else. 

Gotquestions.org said this, "The overall and easily seen thrust of the parable is that Christ will return at an unknown hour and that His people must be ready. Being ready means preparing for whatever contingency arises in our lives and keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus at all times while we eagerly await His coming. As seen in the fact that all the virgins were sleeping when the call came indicates that it doesn’t matter what we are doing when Christ returns. We may be working, eating, sleeping, or pursuing leisure activities. Whatever it is, we must be doing it in such a way that we don’t have to “make things right” (get more oil) when He comes."