Prepared for the Bridegroom

As the church year draws to a close, we find ourselves face to face with one of the most searching questions of the Christian life: are we truly prepared for Christ's return? Drawing from the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25, this message cuts through the noise of worldly anxiety and doomsday predictions to reveal something far more grounding and far more freeing. The parable's imagery of oil, lamps, and a waiting bridegroom is not meant to send us scrambling for the right spiritual gear or the perfect devotional routine. Instead, it points us toward a deeper truth about where our preparedness actually comes from. The oil in our lamps is not something we manufacture through sheer religious effort. It is something given to us, poured into us, by the one who is life itself. We are invited to stop measuring our readiness by what we have accomplished and start resting in what has already been accomplished for us.