Got Oil?

What could fully represent both ends of this transition? What can be both worthless and have insurmountable worth? What causes disgrace yet becomes beautiful? What can be made clean of which is filthy in essence? How could something be built-up when broken in many pieces?

What if I were to say the worth is discovered in the realization of worthlessness, the beautiful made perfect through trial and revelation of disgrace, the clean made from reality given of such filth, and the built-up, made by breaking down walls and structures.

Disgrace brings filth, followed by worthlessness, which will lead to brokenness. We are then; Built up, made clean and beautiful and given worth. However we are built-up because of this brokenness caused by disgrace, filth and worthlessness. It is then when we realize the worth in as such, someone cares enough to pick up the pieces and make us clean and beautiful.

Each one of us is born with sin, since the fall of man. It is inevitable. We live lives full of disgrace, idolatry, sin. We are covered in filth, surrounded by filth and sin. What things we think we may have accomplished are as dirty rags. Why would anyone, let alone God, care or even love us, we are not worthy of such love.

Matt: 25: 1-4 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. –Now Five of them were wise and five were foolish. –Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, -but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”

We represent the bride of Christ and Jesus is a love-sick God. SoS 4:9 “You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one look, with one link of your necklace.”

Ravished: To seize and carry away, to over whelm with emotion, to enrapture, enthralled, to move, to delight beyond measure.

Sister = he knows us for who we are

Sister – spouse is not an insistial application. We man and woman are known by god for who we are and will not be in a marriage like man and woman, but will have the privilege of being with Him for all eternity on the most personal and intimate levels.

Jesus really is love-sick for us, He is absolutely ruined over us.

• All it takes is one true look …. Seeking and finding
• One sincere act of will…. The neck symbolizes a persons will.
• It all is valued, it all is important and you mean a whole lot to Him.

I remember when I first saw my wife walking up the isle on our wedding day, by bride was ready. It did something to me, it confirmed everything we went through to get there, it stirred my heart, shook it and I felt it… I felt pangs of pain in my body as I died to myself for my bride. She stole me in that moment. This was the most horrifically beautiful moment in my life.

When we take a real look, when we truly seek after and see Jesus for all he is; He is moved in the very same way. He is totally ravished in that moment, this is a moment when his bride is looking and willing towards Him, it is a moment when He realized how much worth it, it was to die for us.

Our lives are the preparation and walk up the isle, and Jesus is eagerly awaiting his bride. Matt, 25:1-13 1 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. 11 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’
13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

We need to have spiritual oil, we need to be ready for the bridegroom when the time comes. We obtain spiritual oil through the pouring out of ourselves through prayer and worship with god, intimacy with God fills us up.