🕯 Day 4 – Buy Oil While You Can

📖 “Go instead to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.” – Matthew 25:9

🔍 1. Exegetical Read

When the foolish virgins realize their lamps are dying, they make a desperate appeal: “Give us some of your oil.” But the wise reply with clarity—not cruelty: “No… go and buy some for yourselves.”

This is a statement of reality, not rejection.

In Scripture, “buying” oil speaks to personal cost and direct transaction. Not in monetary terms—but in spiritual posture. You cannot inherit someone else’s intimacy. You can’t borrow devotion. You can’t shortcut consecration.

Oil must be acquired firsthand. The wise had what they needed not because they were favored—but because they paid the price beforehand. They had walked with Him. They had stored what mattered.

🔁 2. Connection to the Week: Return to the Source

The oil that sustains us doesn’t come through hype, secondhand revelation, or emotional inheritance. It comes through time in the secret place—through abiding, through trust, through slow surrender.

This is the danger of spiritual substitution. We begin relying on podcasts instead of prayer, preachers instead of presence, momentum instead of obedience. But in the midnight hour, borrowed oil won’t burn.

To return to the Source is to return to the only well that fills. It’s to recognize: I must go and buy for myself.

💡 3. Reconciling Moment

There is still time. The door is not yet shut. The cry is still sounding. But the window will not remain open forever.

Don’t wait until the fire is required to seek the oil you neglected. Today is mercy. Today is invitation. Today is a chance to reprioritize, realign, and refill.

Don’t just ask for oil—go and buy it.

✍ Prompt:
What do I need to rearrange or reprioritize in order to make room for oil?