Baptism is easy to overlook. Your own baptism may not register in your memory banks because it happened when you were an infant. Or the simplicity of the rite of Baptism and the act of Baptism can make it seem like a minor or simple event. In our minds it can become a routine event — like a graduation — that everyone goes through.

Nothing could be further from the truth! At your baptism, you were changed.

According to God’s promise you were connected to Jesus’ death and resurrection in your baptism. You are free from sin’s curse and prepared for eternal glory. You are empowered to live a new life as a Christian by your baptism.

In Remember Who You Are: Baptism, A Model for Christian Life, William Willimon writes:
Who tells you who you are: Your parents, your children, your nation, your job, your friends, your school, your back account? If you allow others to tell you who you are, they will be only too happy to tell you. But that is a dangerous way.

Through Baptism, a Christian first and finally learns who he or she is. It is the rite of identity. Baptism asserts rather than argues, it proclaims rather than explains, it commands rather than requests, it acts rather than signifies, and it involves rather than describes. When you ask in desperation, “Who, in God’s name, am I?” baptism will have you feel the water dripping from your head and oil oozing down your neck and say, “You are, in God’s name, royalty. God’s own, claimed and ordained for God’s serious and joyful business.” (pp. 27-28)

God proclaimed, at your baptism, that you matter to him! Let that water wash your soul and fill you with the joy that God intends for you to know.

"You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." (Galatians 3:26–27)

 

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