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Text Box: great distances, you are aware of what is euphemistically termed “the facts of life.” You have made a promise to God that you will remain a virgin, devoted to worshiping Him continually. But no matter what the circumstances of your life, you are still a little girl. Not a pre-juvenile, and in your culture and experience you are much more mature than females of like age in more “modern” cultures. But in the eyes of anyone fifty years of age or older, you are still a little girl. Then this person who looks like a man but glows like fiery bronze and gold and obviously could toss the universe around like a blade of grass suddenly appears in your family’s house, greets you as though he were greeting the leader of the greatest empire in the world, and in that greeting says, “Hail, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee: Blessed art thou amongst women.” And your only surprise is at the manner of his greeting; at what he has said; at instead of calling you Mary he calls you “Full of Grace”. You know only God is full of Grace. “The Lord is with Thee”. People can walk with God, follow what God has taught and required. But that means that person is with God. How can it be said that God is with someone when it is only proper to say that someone is with God? “Blessed art thou amongst women.” Out of all the women who are living, who ever were, who ever will be, how can I alone be called Blessed? It is not that there must be someone else who is more Blessed than I am, more holy, more devoted to God; rather, it is, what does that mean? There was no fear, no surprise at the sudden appearance of Saint Gabriel. Only wonderment at his greeting and what did that greeting mean. Had angels been appearing to Mary all of her life? Perhaps, but we will not know in this life. But when Saint Gabriel stated his purpose and God’s request, her

Text Box: response was mature beyond the years of anyone ever in the history of the world, for her response was in effect, how is it to be that I will conceive and bear a child for I have made a vow to God which can never be broken, that I will remain a virgin perpetually. When Saint Gabriel explained she would conceive by the overshadowing of the Holy Ghost in the power of the Most High - of God - and that therefore the Child born to her will be the Son of God, Mary had no hesitation. She said, in effect, I am God’s to do with as He wills, so I agree to conceive by God making it happen knowing I will remain a virgin forever even though I conceive and give birth to a Son. Total acceptance once she was assured her sacred promise to God, to remain a perpetual virgin, would not be broken. She knew that since only God could do what Saint Gabriel described, that only God could conceive in her while she remained a virgin, that the messenger must be from God. But, again, perhaps the Ever Virgin Mary was well acquainted with angels from God, which means she would also be well acquainted with devils from Satan, so she could tell them apart, or test them. Once we ascertained that something actually is God’s will, how many of us have ever even thought of doing it, much less actually done it, without hesitation? Occasionally this may happen. But it is not likely it happens very often. Yet this was what the Ever Virgin Mary always did. Always. No matter how old we become, what our station or condition in life is, perfect obedience to God’s will is that to which we should strive to attain. We do not have to be concerned about extraordinary matters. Just the simple every day matters should be our focus. This is a matter of will. It is something which most of us find difficult primarily because we are not fully committed to it. And becoming more committed to it is also a matter of will.

Text Box: Since it is today, today is a good time for us to not only resolve to be committed to doing God’s will. It also is a good time to actually become committed to doing God’s will. If it were yesterday, or if it were tomorrow, it would also be a good day to do this, for doing God’s will is, absolutely is, the best thing we can ever do. And it is not something which we must research to determine. God had made His will known. So, let’s do it. Is 8:10-15; Luke 1:26-38 +

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