December 17

Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would one day walk on water?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would save our sons and daughters?

Did you know that your baby boy
Has come to make you new?
This child that you deliver will soon deliver you.

Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would give sight to a blind man?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would calm a storm with his hands?
Did you know that your baby boy
Has walked where angels trod?
And when you kissed your little baby,
You kissed the face of God.

Oh, Mary, did you know?
Mary, did you know?

The blind will see, the deaf will hear,
The dead will live again;
The lame will leap, the dumb will speak
The praises of the lamb.

Oh, Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Is Lord of all creation?
Mary, did you know that your baby boy
Would one day rule the nation?
Did you know that your baby boy
Was heaven's perfect lamb?

That the sleeping child you're holding
Is the great I Am?

As I've been practicing this song to sing on Sunday, I've come to see new hope and meaning in it.

It's a continual rhetorical question: Mary, did you know?

And I believe the answer is no. She had not an inkling.

Yes, the angel had told her that this would be the Son of God. And yes, she was likely raised well, knowing the scriptures which included the prophecies about the Messiah in Isaiah and other prophetic books. Yes, she may have had the head knowledge.

But did she really know? She was fully human - she could not have known.

It's the same with us. Someday, in heaven, God may ask - Grace, did you know what I was up to when I did this, and when I did that? Grace, did you know?

Isn't that amazingly hopeful? Miracles could be playing out all around us, but we just can't see them...yet.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12.

Reread those songs words, and ponder what all Mary did NOT know...all those miracles. And then ponder...what do YOU (I) not know?

“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered the heart of man, All that God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9

Amen. Come soon, Lord Jesus.