Mary Did You Know? Series

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 where angels trod?

And when your kiss your little baby, you have kissed the face of God.

Oh, 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.

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 nations?

Did you know that your baby boy is heaven's perfect Lamb?

This sleeping child you're holding is the great I am.

Wow what great questions and things to ponder in our hearts and minds today!

The Christmas song was well received became a hit, the song became beloved by many, and it has been sung by many including: Michael English, Kenny Rogers, Kathleen Battle, Clay Aiken, Pentatonix, Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire, Jeremy Camp, Kutless, Jordan Smith even sang in on The Voice and received a stand ovation and then went on to win the voice.

Surprisingly there are those who criticize the song as unbiblical – ponder this – trust me you will shrug your shoulders? 😊

Some Catholics disapprove due to the line, “Did you know that your Baby Boy has come to make you new? This Child that you delivered will soon deliver you.” This notion that Mary needs deliverance (from sin and the penalty of sin) defies the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception. According to Father Robert McTeigue, “In other words the lyrics depend upon the dogma of the Immaculate Conception being false. If Mary needs a Savior, then she cannot be the vessel of the Incarnation. And “No-Incarnation” = “No-Christmas.” How ironic that a song sung with so much gusto as a hymn logically precludes what it claims to celebrate!”

But Romans states this in Romans 3:23: “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” Including Mary!

Recently the Washington Post article by Ruth Everhart said that some reject the song because of its emphasis on Mary’s virginity – which is not good – because it “is part of the purity culture, which is destructive for rape victims.”

Have you turned your head yet and pondered that thought?

Others have complained that Mary did indeed know that she would bear the Christ child, the Messiah, and therefore the song’s questions are redundant and unnecessary. Joy Clarkson explains this in a Christianity Today article title “Yes, Mary Knew.”

Wow – Those kind of reactions to this Christmas song make me ponder what Mary may have been struggling with and rolling over in her mind and heart – right – have you turned your head yet to “Ponder” like Mary?

But amidst all the controversy and discussion, there is Biblical truth to the story and to the song?