“May it be to me as you have said” (Luke 1:38).
—Mary
Mary stood at the fork in her life’s road. Her response to Gabriel would set the course of the rest of her years. Her offering: “May it be to me as you have said.”
When we respond to God as Mary did, we are responding with an attitude and heart that crowns us with true human majesty, utmost dignity, and actual freedom. In responding “May it be to me as you have said,” Mary found beatitude, her place of highest blessing. Years later her Son would also respond, “yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:42).
When we say, “Thy will be done,” we find heaven, joy, and the deepest fulfillment we can imagine.[1]
My offering of myself to the infant born in divine humility sets the course of my life, too. “Thy will be done”—our joy and our crown.
[1] C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
The content of this post is from All Creation Sings by Luann Budd.