The Importance of Total Commitment to God

Because what God has done with Mary, He wants to do with you.

That Mary's yes was not just with her soul, with her mind, it was her whole

self. And because of that, she's assumed not just her body, not just

her soul, I mean, not just her mind,

but her whole self, her body, her mind, her soul,

her everything is assumed. Everything that she gave to Jesus

has been transformed by Jesus.

She's kind of the blueprint.

And that's th- what this day declares,

is that what God has done with Mary's yes, He wants to do with your

yes and my yes. What God has done with Mary's soul

and mind and body,

He wants to do with your soul and mind and body.

Another way to say it is,

since Mary gave her whole self to God in that yes,

because of that,

He then gave her the whole of heaven.

Because she gave her whole self to God in that yes, now her whole

self has access to heaven.

And she does this not because

she's meant to be the only one.

She's just the first one.

What she has done, you and I are meant to do.

What God has done in her, He wants to do in you and me.

She's all His.

So here's the question.

What about us?

What if God wants all of us?

What if God wants us to g- th- with the dignity of our response to Him,

what if He

wants to take that yes

and say, "Okay, that means your soul is mine.

Okay, of course. That means your mind is mine. You got it.

That means your body is mine.

Okay.

That means your future

and your hopes and your fears,

your dreams and your anxieties, all of them get to be mine."

If we can give God our yes the way that Mary gave God her yes,

basically saying yes with no backup plan, saying yes

without reserve, basically being all in,

what will He do with it? He will do exactly what He's already shown

He's

done with Mary.

If we give Him our whole life,

He'll raise it.

If we give Him

the smallest response, the dignity of our response,

what He can do

is makes it holy.

Because we know this, God doesn't waste anything

that we give to Him.

He doesn't waste our suffering,

He doesn't waste our love, He doesn't waste our yes, He doesn't waste

our sacrifice. And so

if you and I find ourselves today

in a place where

we're given the opportunity to say yes to God,

but we're also faced with this fear and anxiety over what will He do with

that yes,

take consolation in today's feast.

What He does with that yes is, yes, He takes us, body and soul,

through suffering,

through sorrow, through grief, through loss, and through joy,

and through life, and through love,

all the way to Him.

Mary went all in.

You and I are called to be all in.

What we do is

we go all in

and we let God bring all of us,

our entire self, body

and soul,

all the way to Him.