Mathew 25:2-4 ‘. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.’

DAILY READING ; 1 Thessalonians 1; Isaiah 11-13; Psalm 112

Astronauts live in space in a place called the international space station [ISS]. They can live there for months and when they run out of supplies, new supplies are sent to them using a capsule.
In December 2019, one of such capsules containing thousands of pounds of supplies was to be carried by a rocket into space. Thereafter, the capsule would detach itself from the rocket and then ignite its own engines that would take it further up to the international space station where the astronauts waited for it.
However, the capsule was unable to carry out this mission because of a fault with its clock.
After separating from the rocket, the capsule missed the moment it needed to ignite its engines for a carefully timed and fully automated process.
The clock system that tracked time and guided maneuvers for the capsule, had unexpectedly malfunctioned. This caused the capsule to lose track of time and so the engines didn’t start when they should have.
When engineers on earth monitoring the operation realized what was going on, they scrambled to send new commands to the capsule, but it was too late. The capsule had been burning fuel as it stayed in one position and could no longer execute the order of moving upwards to the ISS to deliver the crucial supplies to the astronauts.
The engineers had no choice but to return the capsule back to the Earth. It streaked through the atmosphere, and eventually parachuted down in New Mexico. This error with its timing made the capsule not to accomplish its important mission and purpose.

Likewise, spiritually, failure to accomplish divine purpose is often a function of missing divine timing.
In the scripture there are two Greek words used for time: one is chronos, that’s where we get our word chronological. It deals with ordinary time: minutes, hours and days. The second Greek word is Kairos: it’s defined as an opportune moment, a passing instant where an opening appears. It has to do with an appointed time, with a season of favor.
In our journey of destiny, God has already ordained these Kairos moments for us. But if we are not sensitive and alert in the spirit, we might miss our timing and divine opportunities.
This was what happened to the Israelites at Kardesh Barnea. After leaving slavery in Egypt and travelling through the horrible desert, they finally were camped next door to the Promised Land. It was their Kairos moments, an incredible door was about to open, an opportunity of a lifetime. And yet they missed this divine timing due to a crisis of faith and had to wander in the wilderness for 40 years until that unbelieving generation passed away.
Also the five foolish virgins missed their kairos moment. They had every opportunity to get oil, while they could, but the squandered the time of grace and the door became closed to them.
On the earth today, we are living in unusual times. There is just a window of time left and it is an opening of grace, let’s not squander it.
We need to get oil in our lamps and begin to seek God like never before. Let us not get carried away by the numerous distractions in the world and go to sleep spiritually.
We need to be sensitive to the leadings of the Spirit so as not to miss God’s timing for us especially as the end-time events unfold.
1 Thessalonians 5:6-9 says ‘Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober… For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.
At this time on earth, God has given us divine grace. Let us not neglect such great salvation, rather now is the time to align ourselves with God’s will and continually obey the Holy Spirit.
Indeed now is the time for us to watch in the Word and pray always so that we can be sensitive to promptly follow God’s divine timing and accomplish His purpose for us on the earth.

PRAYER; Father please help me to pay the required price of spiritual responsibility, in order to receive specific instructions concerning Your will for me in each season of my life. I receive grace for obedience to Your divine purpose in Jesus Name.

QUOTE :
Illuminate your world for you are a star destined to shine. WORDBITE 222