More than water

More than water

Bible:Galatians 3:23-29

All of you who were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ (V.27).

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One of my earliest childhood memories of church was a pastor walking down the aisle, telling us to “remember the waters of our baptism.” Remember the waters? I asked myself. How can you remember water? He then splashed everyone with water, which was fun . . . but also weird. Why should we think about baptism? When someone is baptised, there’s so much more to it than water. Baptism symbolises how through trusting in Jesus, we’ve become “clothed” with Him (GALATIANS 3:27). Or in other words, it’s celebrating that we now belong to Him and that He lives in and through us. As if that weren’t significant enough, today’s reading in Galatians tells us that if we’ve been clothed with Jesus, our identity is found in Him. We’re the very children of God (V.26). We’ve been made right with God through Him—not by following the Old Testament law (VV.23-25). We’re not divided against one another by gender, culture and status. We’re set free and brought together through Jesus and everything He has already done for us. We now belong to Him (V.29). So there are very good reasons to remember baptism and all it represents. We aren’t simply focusing on the act itself, but that we belong to Jesus and have become children of God. Our identity, future and freedom are found in Him.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. Romans 6 : 5

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