Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

As Jesus gets closer and closer to his death, he takes the time to coach his followers

on what it means to wait well.

Because they and the rest of the church will be waiting for his return for quite some

time.

We still are, in fact.

When we're waiting for something, that process can produce a lot of different emotions in

us.

So especially impatient and frustrated, that usually happens when you're really excited

about what you're waiting for.

On the other hand, if you're not looking forward to it, maybe you're filled with dread

or maybe you forget altogether that it's going to happen.

Jesus knows humanity and he knows that we're more likely to treat his return like the thing

we're not super excited about.

First of all, we don't have any concept of what we're entering into, so it's more common

to be scared of something like that because it feels like a bit of an unknown.

Second, it's easier to want things we are familiar with, like kids and husbands and

vacations to Croatia, and those things take up our mental and emotional energy instead.

In today's reading, Jesus encourages us to wait well, then he tells us why that's

important.

He starts out with a parable of the Ten Virgins, which is a call to steward our time wisely

while we wait.

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