Make Us Ready

Built almost entirely on one repeated plea, this song circles the image of a lamp that must keep burning until the bridegroom arrives. The singer asks again and again for oil in the lamp and for the fire not to die, a picture drawn straight from the parable of the waiting virgins. The repetition isn't filler; it works like a prayer breathed over and over, the kind you say when you know your own supply runs thin. Midway the focus shifts outward: the lamp is lifted onto a hill and a stand, no longer hidden, a light meant for others to see. The final movement names the source of the oil directly, asking to be filled with the Spirit of love and anointed from above, before the chorus resolves into the plainest request of all, make us ready. There's no drama here, no resolution scene, just a steady act of watching and a willingness to be found prepared. The song treats readiness not as an achievement but as something received, oil poured in by someone else's hand.