He
came for me and others who came to know what it feels like to make God cry, to
hurt Him, and who are truly sorry for what they have done to Him. He came that
I might be saved, that all might be saved, that the broken relationships that
occur because of our ignorance, our lack of desire to do right, or our
selfishness. He came to provide a way to make us whole. It begins with baptism.
Baptism is not an end: it is a beginning. Baptism is the result of one’s
realization that one is a sinner and will perish without God’s grace, and that
Jesus is the way to salvation. Does that mean mere belief? No, it means much
more than that. It means acting out the belief that Christ came to bring peace
to an otherwise war-torn humanity. The only way to peace is realizing that God
is the One and Only God and the true Savior is His Son, Who being a part of God
brings us His Word, and is God walking with us. Why? He cares so much for me He
wants me in that relationship with Him. Can John the Baptist save me? No, His
baptism was for repentance and changing the way of acting, from meanness to
kindness, from extortion to fairness and justice. But those people didn’t
understand why they were getting baptized, all they knew is that they had to
change. The only baptism that will bring peace to my relationship with God is
baptism in Christ, participating in His life, living up to the fact that God
created me in His image, as He did Adam and Eve. The only way to do that is to
humbly follow Christ.
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