Life as a Christian Woman

Mary Did You Know

by Buddy Greene and Mark Lowery

Mary did you know that you baby boy will one day walk on water?
Mary 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?
Mary did you know that your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?
Did you know that your baby boy has walked wear angels trod?
And when you kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God.

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.
Mary did you know that your baby boy will one day rule 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.

I think about Mary sometimes. What was she like? How did she handle the news that she was pregnant? That she was giving birth to the son of God?

What did she think the day she gave birth? In a strange place, not even in the privacy of a room, but out among the animals. What did she think as she held Jesus for the first time, heard him cry.

What did she think when, as a 12 year old, he “schooled” the religious leaders of his day? What went through her head when he began his ministry? When word reached her he had preached to 5,000, and fed them with a little boy’s lunch?

What did she feel when her son was taken into custody and the mobs yelled “Give us Barabas”? What did she think as she saw her son, her baby boy, nailed to a cross, mocked, ridiculed.

Finally, when she heard the news of the resurrection, how did she react?

Mary’s life must have been filled with so many contradictions… a virgin who gives birth. A son who is the son of God. As she saw him lead thousands of people, she must have felt so much pride. When she heard about his stoning, her heart must have ached like no other. And as she watched the nails pierce his hands and feet, saw him hung on a cross like a common criminal, I can’t fathom the devastation.

Did she wonder if God had deserted her? If this had all been some big practical joke?

And when she found out about her son’s resurrection, did she believe, or did she doubt?

There is so much we don’t know about Mary. When asked who I would like to have at dinner if I could have anyone, I always say Mary first. I’d love to sit and talk to her, see what it was like to raise the son of God.

In the meantime, it’s enough to know that God chose her. How special she must have been!