Dec 22, 2019
Mary, How Could You Know?
Mary, you are a little teenage girl. Can you believe that it was an angel who talked to you, or was that a mad dream?
You find yourself pregnant, even without a husband… even without a man. How can this be? And if so, what will your family say? What will Joseph, your intended, say? You wonder these things.
You know your scriptures. You know that God promised to send the Messiah in the form of a humble baby, born of a virgin. But… you? You know these things, but can you believe God has chosen you?
You are asking: “Me? Blessed among women? Of all generations?” You humbly fall to your knees and weep. Yes, you are blessed. But you know scripture well enough to know that your baby will grow to heal, and teach, and love, and… be rejected of men. Be persecuted, tortured, despised, and die. Why? Because he loved.
Mary, can you know?
I think you do know, because you know what the scriptures foretold; you heard from angels.
You know that when your baby’s ministry is finished – after you give birth in a lowly place, after your baby grows in wisdom, sinless, even does mighty miracles – you will be helpless as you watch him suffer and die. At the moment when a mother should protect her son, you will be unable.
On that day in the future, you will be in a small group at the foot of a cross, and maybe the only friend or family member who has remained loyal.
Because you are a mother. Because you listened to an angel. Because you know scripture. Mary, can you know that at that moment your baby Jesus will look down into your eyes and say, “Mother, behold your son”?
Can you know these things?
All these events – prophesied in great detail 700 years earlier in the Book of Isaiah, or looking forward to the end of days – Mary knew. And if she did not… she believed; she trusted; and she was obedient.
You and I should bring such gifts, ourselves – belief and trust and obedience – to the Babe in the manger.
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The amazing song Mary, Did You Know is here performed by its writer, Mark Lowry, and its composer Buddy Greene.
Click: Mary, Did You Know
Wow-beautiful and thought-proving.
“I think you know because you know what scripture foretold…” powerful lesson there! Must be how Jesus knew how when the enemy the enemy came taunting.
Loved this!
I did leave a comment on this post, but I was having internet weirdness at the time. Fix it not post? Or is it being moderated? ?
I see the comments and approve or… not. Why would I not? (And I love debates!) But your comments are very very much appreciated!