December 6, 2010

This week I am going to focus on Mary and Joseph.  There are a lot of songs about Mary.    The most popular right now is Mary, Did You Know?  I it is a beautiful song that makes us wonder if Mary understood what was going to happen to her son. But then, I found another song that puts in perspective that Mary did know what was happening. I love the chorus of this song because the idea that Mary saw him as a mother first.  When I get to heaven, I want to sit down with Mary and talk about Jesus and her relationship as his mother and the things she saw that put his Godliness in perspective.  Was it hard to discipline Jesus?  Did she have to?  Was he gentle, loving or did he roughhouse with his brothers?  But through it all, as we peek in to her life, she knew that one day he would become our Savior. 

Mary Knew

Words and Music by Gina Vera

Performed by Brian Free and Assurance

An angel of the Lord went out for visitation

Mary's willing heart was this angels destination

He spoke of the one who would be born

To reign as king and lord

Overshadowed by the truth,

Mary knew

Everyone could question the story's validation

Mary's new did not bring a joyous celebration

Even Joseph could not understand

That this was heaven's lamb

but a manager now held the truth,

Mary knew.

Mary knew Him at his best and she knew Him at his worst

She understood the man in Him

But knew that God came first

so she held her little promise

And she watched Him as He grew

But her faith never wavered from the truth,

Mary knew.

She followed all the way to the top of a great hill

Mary watched a silent pain

The Father's plan fulfilled

And at His feet she knelt that day.

As tears ran down her face

For the cross now held the truth,

Mary knew

At the place where they had laid baby down to sleep

An angel told the story of what she had believed

She saw the stone was rolled away

It was just an empty grave

The tomb revealed the truth,
Mary knew.

Mary knew Him at his best

And she knew Him at his worst

She understood the man in Him

but knew that God came first

So she held her little promise

And she watched Him as he grew

But her faith never wavered from the truth,

Mary knew.