{"id":2186,"date":"2010-07-27T00:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T14:03:06","slug":"ready-for-his-appearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2186","title":{"rendered":"Ready for His Appearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cAnd while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut\u201d (Matthew 25:10).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s verse reinforces others we have already explored.\u00a0 We have the responsibility of being ready for the Bridegroom or we will be left behind.\u00a0 We have the blessed hope of His appearing.\u00a0 Why would we be so careless as to not be ready when He comes?\u00a0 Why would anyone not be excited for His return?<\/p>\n<p>Like the five foolish virgins in our verse, you may think you have plenty of time to make things ready when He comes.\u00a0 Why wait until the eleventh hour?\u00a0 The Bridegroom just might come at 10:59.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Winchester<br \/>\nMissouri<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRAY TOGETHER: <\/strong>It&#8217;s okay to share burdens\u2014but not gossip. Pray God would keep a guard over our moths. May our words glorify God and edify others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut\u201d (Matthew 25:10). Today\u2019s verse reinforces others we have already explored.\u00a0 We have the responsibility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=2186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}