Matthew 25:5-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry was heard: \u2018Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!\u2019 \u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cStay alert my son. Stay awake. I am coming soon and you must be ready for my return. Don\u2019t slumber as many of my children are. Stay alert and prepared for My return is soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hear the Lord sound the trumpet in my spirit. I hear the call to vigilance. So much is being done and we are so busy, but Jesus is not moved by our extra busyness. Jesus is re-inviting us into the life of watchfulness. Don\u2019t judge your level of preparedness by those around you. Remember that everyone is asleep but some are asleep having prepared ahead. I must prepare ahead so that irrespective of what happens, I am ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlthough You have delayed, O Lord, help me stay awake and alert. Help me not to join the foolish that sleep without preparing. Please Lord. Help me. Amen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matthew 25:5-6 \u201cBut while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight a cry was heard: \u2018Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!\u2019 \u2019\u2019 \u201cStay alert my son. Stay awake. I am coming soon and you must be ready for my return. Don\u2019t slumber as many of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-reflections-from-matthew"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Reflections-from-Matthew.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}