Mary spent the “talent” of her life in obedience to God. She said ‘yes’ to God and lived that ‘yes’ through to the end of her days - we see her in Acts and the Gospels right there from the Annunciation to the Visitation to her son's side at the crucifixion to her presence in the company of the Apostles in the early church and at Pentecost. All we know about her is good - exceptionally good - blessed (as the Gospel tells us, as Elizabeth tells her, as the angel tells her).
So she lived her ‘yes’ to God her whole life whereas the end of my story on earth is still ahead of me, and I am not in heaven yet, so no, I am not “as blessed” (as if there were degrees of proximity to God requiring different levels of sunscreen). I am no where close. Anyone who says he is a saint - aint. We all have thorns in the flesh and any one of them could derail us in this life's pilgrimage - counting ourselves as “blessed” when our race aint over among them. Let God sort that out and bestow that title on you.
Remember inthe gospels when James and John were jostling to get to be counted foremast among Jesus' followers? It was a dumb argument but the gospel records it precisely to be instructive - to show that the apostles did not understand who they were really dealing with yet or what He was about.
How do you know that ?
The scriptures introduce her as a teenager, we know nothing of her before that
She said ‘yes’ to God and lived that ‘yes’ through to the end of her days -
What was the question she said yes to?
we see her in Acts and the Gospels right there from the Annunciation to the Visitation to her son's side at the crucifixion to her presence in the company of the Apostles in the early church and at Pentecost.
Actually scripture tells us very little of her.. we know of her pregnancy and delivery, on the flight to Egypt and then nothing again until she loses Jesus on a visit to the temple and then again at a social function..a wedding..
The Mary we see after those events thinks Jesus may be crazy and seeks to remove him from a time of ministry..
Then we see her at the cross with Christ and then again in the upper room where she along with other believers received the Holy Spirit We ever hear of her again
We have only a handful of references to Mary.. we have no way to know that she was always obedient to God .
All we know about her is good - exceptionally good - blessed (as the Gospel tells us, as Elizabeth tells her, as the angel tells her).
She said Mary was blessed by God..not BLESS ED as Catholics like to pronounce it.. Elizabeth was glorifying God not Mary..
Was Mary good as God counts good? Jesus said NO ONE was good except God