1 Peter 3:21 “And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also- not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Lord, as You know, I was sprinkled on my head (their form of baptism), as a child in the church I was brought up in. My Mother told me that at age twelve, it had been after some sort of catechism so I could join the church. I do not remember either event. I do not question her memory, however I feel very sad that, like others I suppose, I could have apparently been taught and had “learned” so much that I had been counted “worthy” to be baptized but do not remember any of it. I must have been like many other adults and children who grew up in church hearing about You, believing historically that You were the Son of God (whatever that meant), born of a virgin, crucified and resurrected, but having no idea of what that might mean to me personally.
After my conversion, when I started reading the word for myself, I learned that baptism by immersion always came after salvation and did not bring you into membership of a denomination, but was an outward sign of what had happened inwardly
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