Religion parable

Parables of the Ten Bridesmaids

Matthew 25: 1-13

Anita

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten bridesmaids who took their lambs and went out to meet the groom. The wise took their lambs and brought extra oil, but the five other foolish ones didn't. The groom was coming in late, so the ten bridesmaids got tired and fell asleep. Soon they were alerted that the groom had came and got up and prepared the lambs. Then the foolish asked "please give us your oil, your lambs are falling asleep." But the wise brides said no and to go buy their own oil at the market, since there wouldn't be enough for all of them. Later, when the foolish ones came back the door was shut. The foolish ones pleaded' "Lord, Lord open the door for us." But the Lord replied, "Believe me, I don't know you," so you must keep my watch. You may never know the day or hour of my return.

I think what Jesus was trying to say in this parable is that we should always be prepared for what is next to come. In the way I see it Jesus is saying that you'll never know when He will come back to Earth, so you should always be prepared. In this parable Jesus says that 'there were 10 bridesmaids. Also how five were wise ones and 5 were foolish. When the groom had came out the foolish ones lambs wouldn't wake up because the foolish bridesmaids didn't bring oil. I could use that example and relate to it. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last, both do the same thing; only at different times, is a quote by John Dalberg Acton. This basically means that wise people make smarter choices than foolish people, what I think the moral of the paragraph is.