Go to a shop and buy some for yourselves (Matt. 25:9).
There are many things in life other people can do for you. An architect can design a house for you; a building contractor can build it for you; the service station can service or repair your car; a medical doctor can treat your illness. One thing, however, you must do for yourself - believe in Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. There is no way that your faith lamp will burn with someone else's oil.
For some people, all their lives they are part of the wedding procession of the Lamb, but their hearts are never completely involved. Then, panic-stricken in their crisis hour, in terror of dying, they call for help. Then they cling to mother or father; to husband or wife; to church or preacher. "Give us some oil - it's getting dark around us." It is of no consequence if these people want to help them. What matters here is what they cannot do. Salvation cannot be divided. A parent can't believe for their child, a friend cannot be converted on behalf of a friend. Each of us must perform our own act of faith. You get this oil only if you go anf buy it for yourself.
Thus we are cast back on to God - the only One we can receive faith oil from. He charges us nothing - the price has already been paid (see Isa. 55:1). We cannot borrow this oil, steal or beg for it. We must have our own personal certainty of faith.
We may have beautiful lamps - all the outward forms of religion - but if we don't have faith oil, our lamps will go out and we remain unsaved. Only God can keep us from that disaster if we come to Him in time.
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