Today people are busy. Busy, busy, busy. People are preparing for Christmas already by shopping and putting up decorations and getting ready for parties. Christians, let us not forget that Christ is going to return. Let us not be caught with our lamps of faith snuffed out because we neglected the Word and Sacraments because we were just too busy with other distractions. In the parable of the Ten Maidens in Matthew 25, Jesus warns us to be ready for His coming by daily watching and praying by studying His Word and receiving the gifts he offers in the Sacraments. Jesus says in Luke 12:35:“Be ready for action with belts fastened and lamps burning, like men waiting for their master when he comes back from a wedding, so that they can open the door for him the moment he knocks.” For those who choose to despise God's Word, the door will be shut and the Master will say, "I never knew You," but to those who's lamps of faith are burning the Lord Jesus will say, "Come, you whom My Father blessed, inherit the kingdom prepared for YOU from the time the world was made. Matt. 25.
Thanks be to God!