"Be ready. Be prepared!" I love telling my students those words. As if it is the last day of the world for them. They don't know if the next day I'll be giving them a quiz or an exam. I love surprises! But this strategy is out of love: that my students will always study and get high grades. They need to learn, study, and apply what they'd learned.
The same with the second coming of Jesus, like the 5 virgins who are wise - they were saved! The 5 foolish virgins - well, they were condemned.
Wisdom is what we need. Wisdom for me is knowledge about God and our faith lived, applied, and shared. We need Wisdom not only knowledge. We need to know the 'why' and not only the 'how' or 'what.' We do really need Wisdom, for it is Christ himself who is the Incarnated Wisdom (cf. Saint LG Montfort, The Love for Eternal Wisdom). To acquire wisdom is to have Christ!
Be ready: Study our faith, live our faith, apply our faith, and share it to others. - Pray for Wisdom! These are strategies to welcome wisely the coming of Christ, the Eternal and Incarnated Divine Wisdom in our lives.
