Psalm 25:4 English Standard Version (ESV) Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.

“Walk with me.”

What does that comment mean to you? It should mean intimacy because there is a call to be alone for the purpose of sharing each other.

During a recent study on Revelations it occurred to me that knowing a thing purely for the sake of having knowledge is different than knowing the person Jesus Christ. We are complex people with many facets in our personalities. We might not even be aware of the motivations that drive us to act and react.

When it comes down to this relationship with Jesus Christ, this revelation of Jesus Christ is an invitation to get to know Christ on the throne of heaven in a way we have not experienced here on earth. If we treat the study as a way to know end times we are missing out on getting to know Jesus better.

We are meant to have an intimate relationship with God. God the Father sent His Son into the world to experience what it feels like to be human. He knows what it is like to be human. What do we know about being God?

So much of the Old Testament is about how God feels about sin and the pain of separation when we choose to pursue anything other than Him. He created us to be loved and to respond to that love by loving Him in return.

What kind of a relationship do we have with another if that person is using us to feel better about themselves or to use us to gain something? Yes God is gracious but that is no excuse to use up His grace to our own selfish ends.

God is the one saying, “Come walk with me!”

Matthew 25:1-13 English Standard Version

The Parable of the Ten Virgins

25 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. ² Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. ³ For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, ⁴ but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. ⁵ As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ⁶ But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ ⁷ Then all those virgins rose 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, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ ¹⁰ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. ¹¹ Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ ¹² But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ ¹³ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Is it midnight?

We might focus on the bridegroom being delayed but do we pay attention to being drowsy and falling asleep?

Matthew 24:45-47 English Standard Version

⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁷ Truly, I say to you, he will set him over all his possessions.

Don’t be that servant that keeps looking at the clock.