This brainstorm idea I have going on in my head is a painting of the bridegrrom coming for his bride or rather the 10 Virgins story.
Now, update the sceanery to our custom of dress and what would each of the virgins be doing...like our daily work, chores, hobbies....what will (we) be doing when Jesus comes? Remember, 5 were wise and 5 are foolish.
Got any ideas? :happyfamilyreac h
I LOVE this idea! GOT to have one sitting a desk working on the computer WITH a cellphone or bluetooth in her ear! Wait! That is MY life....I need to "tighten up" as my hubby would say! Of course the wise could be praying, reading The Word, doing a ONE on ONE Bible Study.
Good luck! Are YOU going to paint this? What is your medium? Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor? I have been taking lessons for a year and STILL am just soooooo BEGINNER status!
ok...I reread Matt. 25:1-13 again.
It says in verse 1, they went out to meet the bridegroom.
Where or what is the place they went out to meet him? The chambers? The bridel room? The alter?
I noticed that in a regular wedding, the groom is waiting at the alter for the bride to appear. In the parable of the 10 virgins, the virgins are waiting for the bridegroom to appear.
Verse 6- the midnight cry rang out...they were told to come out and meet him.
At verse 10- while the 5 foolish virgins were out buying oil, (because apparently there was a laps of time between the midnight cry and the arrival of the groom,) they, the 5 wise, went in with him to the wedding banquet.
So, now, I have to decide whether to have the virgins dressed in brides clothes or regular clothes. And I see a different oil lamp with each woman too. They also had jars to carry the extra oil in.
So, I'm tring to picture all this. I just need someone to answer verse 1 of Matt. 25 for me. I'm not quite understanding it.
I know the virgins represent the church/ the bride of Christ. I'm not sure what each of the 10 women represent....maybe the different gifts of ministy in the body/church?...I'm thinking as I tap....LOL...
And the extra oil, to me means, worship/relationship with Jesus. In any relationship, it takes a willingness to work at it and keep it flowing/or filled. Amen!
Remember, 5 were wise and 5 are foolish.
Got any ideas?
How about a basketball game? One team's in basketball shorts and tops, the other's in jean skirts and long sleeves. Leave it up to the viewer to decide which is which!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
How about a basketball game? One team's in basketball shorts and tops, the other's in jean skirts and long sleeves. Leave it up to the viewer to decide which is which!
Are you thinking of the "one taken" "one left" parable?
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
I have searched and can't find anything that indicates what "going out" to meet the bridegroom means. But, I had a thought about the oil in the lamps. Since the oil represents relationship, my mind STILL is going to things that get in the WAY of relationship with Him. Ex: Daily life- cell phones, laptops, etc.
Your idea is there.....maybe you need to NOT think about it for a while and then it will just "happen"! That's what happens with me! Of course, then again, that MAY not be a good thing! LOL
How about a "divided" scene with the foolish virgins on one side of the door and the wise on the other at the wedding feast? Just another idea. I'm sitting at my desk and SHOULD be researching some things for a musical we are going to do this summer, but, my AADD has kicked in and I've gone from painting to cake decorating to Survivor Babylon and now I'm back to painting! LOL YIKES! I've got to cut down on the caffeine!
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