The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

      Do these verses and the words “I don’t know you” imply anything about salvation? The answer is yes . Yes they do. They imply exclusion from salvation. “If you treat the Lord like he’s unimportant, you won’t enter the feast. You won’t enter salvation. Now, let me step back and give a little reminder. This is a parable, okay? There are ten virgins in this story that Jesus made up. Ten virgins are assigned to welcome the bridegroom when he comes to the feast, to go in and enjoy the bride. So they were to welcome him when he comes. Five virgins take this seriously and stay ready. Five are careless and don’t have what they need to be ready. At the last minute, they run away to try to do a last-ditch effort to be ready. And it fails. It’s too late.   Spiritually Awake  

Many times in our life, we feel like we live in a desert and we couldn’t see the green pasture around us. I have been in that place many times. Here is a good new – The One Who is leading us like a Shepherd has a promise for us in  Psalm 23:2 , He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. There is always a twist and turns in our life. We will never know what will happen tomorrow, but, we live in an assurance that God is holding our future. Today, we will see a person from the Bible, whose life I was meditating recently and that forms the baseline for us in this article. We all know the tragic end of the first king of Israel. He, along with his three sons were killed in a battle against Philistines, which we can study at the end of 1 Samuel (1 Samuel 31). When I was reading that, I thought that, that was the end of the generation of Saul in history and David would be anointed as the King of Israel immediately. But, there was a twist.