I've been spending some time reading Matthew and I come across the passage of the Ten Virgins. I can't stop thinking of it, and asking myself how does this apply to my life? How am I the bride? After dwelling on this a bit myself I go to a teaching thing, and the woman starts talking about how we are the bride of Christ, and to add to that later the next day I go to a "church" called the Basement (which I could talk for hours about but will spare you) and at the basement they are talking bout the bride. Now ya think Jesus isn't trying to tell me something really big?

As children we play stupid games like MASH, and in MASH our life is "determined" by picking three names of boys we like and how many kids we'll have. The wedding day is planned, everything from the color of the tux or the color of the dress. Where our honeymoon will be and what kind of cake we'll eat.

We get a little older and we have slumber parties and talk bout how we want our wedding to be, big? Small? In a church? On the beach? Even a little older than that we start talking bout crushes and the kind of guys we want to be with, we watch movies about love stories and in the end of the story they eventually they get to that wedding day. Life is consumed with the desire to one day be married.

A bride spends many hours, days and even a year getting the preparations for her wedding. Lots of money and time is spent on making decisions about dresses, decorations, flowers, invitations, food, and pictures to remember that special moment forever! This day is the day a little girl has been looking forward to her whole life!!!

Now, as it says in the scripture I am the bride of Christ meaning Christ is the bridegroom. Gosh! Isn't that great to know that I don't have to plan out my love life because I have already found my boo! I read Matthew, and I just have to ask myself questions like, how am I preparing for my wedding day? Am I bringing extra oil for my lamp to be lit when the bride arrives? Will I be pampered and to the utmost beauty for my bridegroom to see me walking down the isle? Will I have spent time with my bridegroom so he knows me before our wedding day? Will I choose to stay pure for my Lord?

Being a "Christian" is not just about asking Jesus into our heart, it's about preparing for that one day when Jesus returns. It's about living my life every day in anticipation for my bridegroom to sweep me off my feet to be with him forever and ever.