Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one day walk on water?
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).