The 3-part series continues examining my pre-immersion understanding of the covenental vow within baptism, strictly in regards to the corporate expression. 

Obviously baptism has been front and center in this season of my life. Now, here on the other side, more and more things are already becoming even more clear. In this series I'll divulge much of what, in my pre-immersion understanding of how the covenental vow within baptism is just being deemed too small, in light of what I have tasted and seen. 

This is my wife Kristin's account of her water immersion from yesterday. She has now been born again, born of the water and born of the Spirit! May it challenge and bless all who listen!

* Here's a link to the song that Kristin references: https://youtu.be/gcODACIBTuc

I joined myself into the death of the Messiah yesterday, via water immersion. I have now been born again, born of the water and born of the Spirit. This is a small peek into the day.

In Acts chapter 8, we see the event where the angel of the Lord sends Philip out to meet the Ethiopian eunuch. What transpires there should propel us to move, to act, to get "into" whatever it is that is before us in the here and now! It's time to get in!

In John chapter 4 we see Jesus encounter a woman drawing out water. She comes for natural need and sustenance but left with something immeasurably more. Within this account is something we must embrace and give ourselves to apprehend.

When weighty matters are front and center in our lives, openness and willingness to deny ourselves must be our response. Are you wholly committed to the purposes of God and being found yielded to whatever He is asking of you?

In Psalm 31 we see a great example of the balance of one who requests God's deliverance yet properly recognizes He is in absolute control. Despite our circumstances, even those we desire to see change, we must remember to acknowledge and believe that God is with us. 

Doesn't everyone enjoy getting something new? Maybe it's a gift received. Maybe it's a purchase made. Perhaps it's experienced even in the birth of a child or moving into a new home. However they come, "new" things are generally good things. So what about all of the new things we read in the Scriptures? Can we walk in the sense, feeling and emotion of when our love and salvation were new, always? Let's talk about it.

Psalm 145 tells us of a pattern of one generation declaring God's wonder, majesty and mighty acts to another. It shows us a perpetual "passing down" of God's awesome deeds. I would say this has been lost throughout the ages. May we reclaim this pattern!