We Must Be Ready

[331 words] Recently I read an article with this title: “10 of the Fanciest Entries from the World Beard and Mustache Championships.” As I continued to read I found that about three hundred men, from nine different countries, spent the entire year trying to win the title: World’s Greatest Beard. This made me think about what people are driven to do in this life and what Christians should be driven to do. There are three things that the Christians could learn from those that wanted to be the World’s Greatest Beard Champion taken from Matthew 25. We Must Be Prepared. The parable of the ten virgins teaches us the lesson of preparation (Matthew 25:1-13). In this parable we learn that five were prepared and five were foolish. The five foolish virgins were not able to use the preparation of the five wise virgins. When they did not have enough oil…