One last look at Christmas songs this morning. While I love the old carols, there is one new song that I find absolutely amazing. The words were written by Mark Lowry, a Christian singer and comedian. The music was written by Buddy Greene, who usually plays a harmonica.

The song is simply a series of questions for Mary.

“Mary, did you know that your Baby Boy would one day walk on water … That your Baby Boy would save our sons and daughters … That your Baby Boy has come to make you new? This Child that you delivered will soon deliver you?”

That was just verse one. The other two verses ask even more profound questions. “Mary, did you know … When you kiss your little Baby you kissed the face of God … That your Baby Boy is LORD of all creation … that your Baby Boy would one day rule the nations … That your Baby Boy is heaven’s perfect Lamb? The sleeping Child you’re holding is the Great, I Am”

I do not know just how much Mary did know. She knew her baby was different, that His conception was miraculous. I am sure she remembered all the angel told her about Him.

Did she understand it all? Probably not. The greatest theologians who have studied for decades cannot really say they understand it all. It is a Glorious Impossible!

“Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be used for His own advantage. Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross. For this reason God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow—of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth—and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” [Philippians 2:5-11 HCSB]

Amen & Amen