Be ready and keep your lamps burning
Be alert and think straight. Put all your hope in how God will treat you with undeserved grace when Jesus Christ appears.
Be ready! Let the truth be like a belt around your waist, and let God's justice protect you like armor.
Make your light shine, so others will see the good you do and will praise your Father in heaven.
The kingdom of heaven is like what happened one night when ten young women took their oil lamps and went to a wedding to meet the groom.
None of them are tired. They don't sleep or get drowsy, and they run without stumbling. Their belts don't come loose; their sandal straps don't break.
Honesty and fairness will be his royal robes.
Then you will be the pure and innocent children of God. You live among people who are crooked and evil, but you must not do anything they can say is wrong. Try to shine as lights among the people of this world,
and she always works hard.
just like those servants who wait up for their master to return from a wedding feast. As soon as he comes and knocks, they open the door for him.
