Tonight, I am getting baptized in water.
I do this as a declaration of the life I intend to live as well as the life I gladly leave behind. My heart has experienced a revival and I don’t intend to neglect that. From this point on, I expect to be held accountable to this declaration. I expect my life to be an obvious indication of the God I serve and I look forward to where my life goes from here.
This is a decision I’ve come to with a bit of consideration. I have quite a few illustrations in my head about this ranging from the process of drowning to the life that comes from hydration. I should like to share those at some point in the coming months.
Understand, I am not saying that baptism saves me or gives me super magical powers or anything like that (refer to 1 Peter 3.18-22… and dang, laser vision would be really cool). I was saved long before this and I was baptized before when I was around 14 years old. This is more about the mind in which I do this with. It is a public declaration of what I do and don’t stand for anymore. I don’t really feel there’s too much more that needs to be said on it right now, actually.
In that sense, it’s kind of like getting a new tattoo haha.
May the mindset in which I do this be just as lasting.
Happy new year.
Photo credit: Heather Landis
