Mary Did You Know?
Imagine this scenario, if you will. You're a virgin, engaged to be married. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an angel tells you that you are pregnant with the child of God. That there is a baby in your womb that is to be the savior of the world.
I think sometimes I take it for granted that Mary was just like "Okay, I'm a virgin but am pregnant with God's son, nifty!" She was probably younger than I am now, I'd guess about 15 or so. Being engaged is a big deal itself, but to be pregnant before being married, that's outrageous considering the social norms of the time. When Mary said "Okay Lord," she was saying okay, let me be looked down upon by my community. Okay, I'll trust that this baby is from you. Okay, I assume he will be the king that the Jews have been waiting for and he will restore us (in an earthly sort of fashion, not cosmological.)
She knew her baby was special, but did she really know when she said yes to God.
I heard the song "Mary Did You Know?" for the first time this week. I went on a Christmas music download spree and I found a compilation by Tooth and Nail Records (which is rather excellent I might add. Mae does a cover of Carol of the Bells. Excellent.) And when I heard "Mary Did You Know?" I literally got chills and got to thinking about what it would be like to be in her shoes.
At this point in my life, I am not a mother. I hope to be, I really truly want to be a mother at some point. But there are things about motherhood that I don't understand simply because I am not a Mom. But I do understand that a mother has a special relationship with her baby. It's that bond that comes from carrying that life inside of you, of having that life depend on you. Again, I don't understand it from a mother's point of view, but it's intimate.
My favorite verse about Mary is from Luke chapter 2, verse 19. It's right after Jesus' birth and after the shepards and angels and all that jazz, after a huge commotion (and rightfully so) was made over a baby born in a manger.
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
That's such a mom thing to do. To treasure all of the amazing things people have said about your baby and to ponder them in your heart. According to dictionary.com, to ponder means to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate. I love it. It's such a beautiful way of putting it. She's putting away all of this beautiful truth in her heart, but I wonder if she realized what her son was meant to do.
The story that God is writing, the story that has been written and the story that is being written is so beautiful and precious and wonderful, it makes me joyful in my heart that I am a part of it. Christianity in its truest form is so incredibly beautiful it is beyond words.
Somedays I feel so dirty, so broken, and then God takes me and washes me clean and I shine like the freshly fallen snow untouched by humans, and reshapes me in His tender haps and makes me new. I fall, and rather often too. But I never fall too far away from Him, He always picks me up. He loves me so beautifully and perfectly it breaks my heart that I don't love Him like I should.
God loves you. So much that He sent His son to Earth to be born of a virgin in a manger.
Precious.
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 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 the storm with His hand?
Did you know
that your Baby Boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the face of God?
Mary did you know.. Ooo Ooo Ooo
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.
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?
The sleeping Child you're holding is the Great, I Am.
I think sometimes I take it for granted that Mary was just like "Okay, I'm a virgin but am pregnant with God's son, nifty!" She was probably younger than I am now, I'd guess about 15 or so. Being engaged is a big deal itself, but to be pregnant before being married, that's outrageous considering the social norms of the time. When Mary said "Okay Lord," she was saying okay, let me be looked down upon by my community. Okay, I'll trust that this baby is from you. Okay, I assume he will be the king that the Jews have been waiting for and he will restore us (in an earthly sort of fashion, not cosmological.)
She knew her baby was special, but did she really know when she said yes to God.
I heard the song "Mary Did You Know?" for the first time this week. I went on a Christmas music download spree and I found a compilation by Tooth and Nail Records (which is rather excellent I might add. Mae does a cover of Carol of the Bells. Excellent.) And when I heard "Mary Did You Know?" I literally got chills and got to thinking about what it would be like to be in her shoes.
At this point in my life, I am not a mother. I hope to be, I really truly want to be a mother at some point. But there are things about motherhood that I don't understand simply because I am not a Mom. But I do understand that a mother has a special relationship with her baby. It's that bond that comes from carrying that life inside of you, of having that life depend on you. Again, I don't understand it from a mother's point of view, but it's intimate.
My favorite verse about Mary is from Luke chapter 2, verse 19. It's right after Jesus' birth and after the shepards and angels and all that jazz, after a huge commotion (and rightfully so) was made over a baby born in a manger.
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
That's such a mom thing to do. To treasure all of the amazing things people have said about your baby and to ponder them in your heart. According to dictionary.com, to ponder means to consider something deeply and thoroughly; meditate. I love it. It's such a beautiful way of putting it. She's putting away all of this beautiful truth in her heart, but I wonder if she realized what her son was meant to do.
The story that God is writing, the story that has been written and the story that is being written is so beautiful and precious and wonderful, it makes me joyful in my heart that I am a part of it. Christianity in its truest form is so incredibly beautiful it is beyond words.
Somedays I feel so dirty, so broken, and then God takes me and washes me clean and I shine like the freshly fallen snow untouched by humans, and reshapes me in His tender haps and makes me new. I fall, and rather often too. But I never fall too far away from Him, He always picks me up. He loves me so beautifully and perfectly it breaks my heart that I don't love Him like I should.
God loves you. So much that He sent His son to Earth to be born of a virgin in a manger.
Precious.
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 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 the storm with His hand?
Did you know
that your Baby Boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the face of God?
Mary did you know.. Ooo Ooo Ooo
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.
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?
The sleeping Child you're holding is the Great, I Am.