Did you know

That your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?

Did you know

That your baby boy has come to make you new?

This child that you've delivered

Will soon deliver you

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?

Did you know

That your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?

Did you know

That your baby boy has walked where angels trod?

And when you kiss your little boy

You've kissed the face of god

Mary, did you know?

The blind will see

The deaf will hear

And the dead will live again

The lame will leap

The dumb will speak

The praises of the lamb

Mary, did you know

That your baby boy is lord of all creation?

Did you know

That your baby boy will one day rules the nations?

Did you know

That your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?

This sleeping child you're holding

Is the great I am?

 
Although she couldn't view a sonogram, she knew the gender of the child she carried. The news came to her through the angel Gabriel, not technology. Mary, a young Jewish woman, expected the Son of God.

     In seasonal lyrics, Mary is asked if she knew she was kissing
the face of God? "Mary, Did You Know" words by Mark Lowery and music by Buddy Greene, caused me to long for an interview with Mary.

     If I could talk to her, I'd ask how many prophecies she heard. How many of Isaiah's words about Messiah did you hear in synagogue? Did you understand that a different ruler came into the world? "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders" (Isaiah 9:6).

     Did you know his governing wouldn't supplant the Roman rule? Did you grasp the nature of his reign -- his throne room in
hearts? "And he will be called Wonderful Counselor . . . Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end" (9:6b).

     Did you perceive the world's greatest hope for calm came
through the babe you laid in a manger? Later, when Jesus was twelve and said, "I must be about my Father's business," did you realize the magnitude of the endeavor?

     Were you aware of the blessings to come through this stunning prophecy? "Every warrior's boot used in battle and every garment rolled in blood will be destined for burning"  (Isaiah 9:5)?

     Mary, while you carried him safe in your womb, you sang a
praise song for your role in God's drama. Later, in his ministry,
when exposed to his hands-on way of loving others, did you marvel at being swept up in his cause?

     When Jesus last ate Passover bread in your kitchen, by then did you know he would become the staff of life, the bread of life? To the confused, the lonely, did you know his sustenance would be better than any loaf baked by women's hands?

     From a crowd, a woman cried out to Jesus, "Blessed is the
mother who gave you birth and nursed you." I can almost see his gentle eyes when he responded, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it" (Luke 11: 27,28). Were you witness to that event?  
  
     Mary, you knew about the Garden of Eden, did you know about the garden of Gethsemene? Did you know a cross shadowed his and your future? At its foot, did you understand when he dissolved the earth-bond of mother and son and became your Lord?

     I suspect many events puzzled you, Mary. That you, like so many of us, didn't have all the answers. But, like you, our hope rests in gentle Jesus. For "the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned" (Isaiah 9:1.2).