Reading Imitation Of Mary- We Must Give Ourselves To God While On Earth

Hello family,
In my previous messages, I shared with you about the Blessed Mother wanting to share insights and wisdom.
From now I will be reading to you beautiful lessons from the Blessed Mother from a book called Imitation of Mary.
When inspired, I take a reading from this book, by making a sigh of cross...In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And then I ask Holy spirit to bind every lying, familiar deceptive, hindering seducing spirits and ask Him to reveal what is in the heart of the Blessed Mother.
And I open the book, you will receive Mother's instruction, reproof and counsel for circumstance you are going through.
Today I took a reading, the chapter was
We must give ourselves to God while on earth.
So the message is an insight about Blessed Mother and her life earth.
Listen my daughter, with care to what I shall say to you: forget your people and your father's house ( ps 45:11)
And you shall win the heart of the king which you have touched. That king is your God.
During her life on earth Mary listened to the voice of God that called her into solitude; from her earliest years she left her father's house and consecrated herself to God in the temple. Nothing could hold her back, not youthfulness nor bodily weaknes nor love of parents.
Everything that delays the sacrifice of a heart which seeks and loves God alone, afflicts that heart for it also delays it's happiness.
Once she became inhabitant of the temple, Mary fulfilled in the most perfect way possible duties that were entrusted to her in accordance with her age and strength.
She devoted to prayer and meditation the time left to her, that is how she prepared herself very special graces God was to give to her.
O daughter of heavens king, how noble and splendid are the first steps you take!( song 7:2)
Others will follow your example," in your train countless virgins will consecrate themselves in the temple of the kings."
The offering they will make to the God of thier youth, their heart, their freedom, their entire self, will be an act of perfect homage to His majesty; and the homage will be a source of blessings which He shall heap upon them throughout their lives.
What self-deception to think that the young are not capable of virtue!
Mary and the saints have shown us how profitable it is for a man to have carried the yoke of the Lord from his very youth.(Lam 3:27).
Do we treat God as God when we give Him only the shabby remnants of a life that was given us that we might spend wholly in His service?
What kind of a sacrifice are we offering to God when we wait to commit ourselves to His service, until by worldy standards, we have neither strength nor means left?
Do not wait until old age to give yourself to God. By the time we are exhausted from the world's yoke and have no strength left to carry God's yoke.
You say you will give yourself to God when you are older. But when will that day come? And when it comes, will you succeed in turning to God as easily as you think?
Experience teaches us that maturer years make us ready to enter the presence of the Supreme judge, who ask an account of ones whole life!
The man who does not consecrate to God the early years of his life may well fear that to punish him God may allow his life to be long drawn out.
My God, how many you know you but do not love you! I should be inconsolable at the thought. But, if I am easily consoled, can I at least say that I have at last begun to love you?
If I were only a child once again! I would want mind and heart, thoughts affections, everything in me, to be given to you.
Thank you for your great mercy in preserving my life while I spend in offending you.
Thank you for your great mercy in preserving my life while I spent it in offending you.
I beg for your grace! May it help me to serve you until my dying breath, and to serve you all more faithfully as I have begun so late to be your servant. Amen!
So let's give our lives, to the Lord and not waiting for an opportune time, it would be the best decision in your life.