Perfection ... Not Required Overnight.

As I've PREPARED for my Sunday School lesson on
The 2nd Coming,

it's been a little overwhelming.
Yet, as I've PRAYED about it, it's not so much so.

A great comparison to that day is
The Parable of The Ten Virgins
Five were wise and five were foolish.

I've always admired the five that were WISE and READY. I've hoped I would be one of those. However, I've never stopped to realize that their preparation did not happen overnight.

It took a whole lifetime to fill those precious vessels.

They, like all of us, needed TIME ...

TIME to try to do their best everyday. As we do the same, we add another drop of OIL to our precious vessels.

Note before watching:
"The Bridegroom" is representative of The Savior
"The Virgins" represent each of us
"The Wedding" is The 2nd Coming
"The Oil" represents our preparation for the 2nd Coming

“In the parable, oil can be purchased at the market. In our lives the oil of preparedness is accumulated drop by drop in righteous living. Attendance at sacrament meetings adds oil to our lamps, drop by drop over the years. Fasting, family prayer, home teaching, control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptures—each act of dedication and obedience is a drop added to our store. Deeds of kindness, payment of offerings and tithes, chaste thoughts and actions, marriage in the covenant for eternity—these, too, contribute importantly to the oil with which we can at midnight refuel our exhausted lamps”
-President Spencer W. Kimball