Mark Lowry Encourages Us to ‘Welcome’ Interruptions: ‘God is Good’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Mark Lowry, creator of the classic Christmas song “Mary Did You Know?,” recently spoke with actor Kirk Cameron about how life’s interruptions can be beautiful.
“You know, it seems to me like God is in the interruptions of my life, and he is sometimes in my plans,” he remembered Gloria Gaither saying.
“Gloria talked about how when her son Benji was probably 4, she was doing the dishes, and Benji came up and tugged on her apron [and said], ‘Come, Mama, come. Come with me, come right now.’ And she said, ‘No, Benji. I’ve got to do these dishes.’ ‘Oh, mama please come,’ you know, he was just begging her to come. And so finally she put down the dishes and followed her little 4-year-old outside and he said, ‘Look mama, look at the sunset.’ And she said you know…I almost missed the sunset for some dishes.”
“‘If I wrote the story of my life, what would make the book?’ And that’s what made me stop and say, ‘Everything that would make the book was an interruption,” Gaither told Lowry previously.
Lowry explained how God is present in the midst of life’s interruptions. In the Bible, the woman with the issue of blood interrupted Jesus to find healing.
Lowry explained how, as Christians, we need to learn to trust God and welcome change.
“I believe one of the keys to life, at least a peaceful life—a contented life—is to learn to not only endure [change] but welcome it, and that’s hard,” he said.
Lowry said that even in life’s bad interruptions, such as personal difficulties or a poor health diagnosis, God still works everything together for good.
“I do believe that God is good. I believe He’s good all the time,” he said.
Cameron chimed in and explained how even Jesus was “interrupted,” and it led to the salvation of many.
“There’s this tragic interruption of a of an arrest, of an illegal trial, and the crucifixion of the Lord of Glory,” he said. “What an awful interruption. Satan didn’t even understand that there is no way to interrupt the redemptive plans of God. In fact, God uses Jesus’s death on the cross to destroy death and the power of hell. And so, the very interruption is turns out to be the very provide answer to the greatest problem we all have.”
If you feel like your life has been “interrupted” today, know that God is still big enough to bring something good from that interruption.
Movieguide® previously reported on Lowry:
Singer-songwriter Mark Lowry is sharing the story behind “Mary Did You Know” and what the song has meant to him over the years.
“I’m a one-hit wonder,” Lowry said during an episode of Kirk Cameron’s “Takeaways.” “I’m telling you, if the Lord sat me down and said, ‘Mark, you can leave one thing behind’…I would have chosen this song.”
Lowry explained that he initially wrote the lyrics for a Christmas production at his church.
“And so once this whole musical thing was over for my church, I went back and revisited that [idea],” he said, adding, “Most of the questions I have for Mary didn’t make the song because they didn’t rhyme.”
When asked about the impact “Mary Did You Know” has had on listeners over the years, Lowry said he hopes it “has made them think about Jesus.”
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