Monday: “The nations will see your vindication, and all
kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord
will bestow” (Isaiah 62:2;
NIV).
Life-changing!
I hate it when advertisers claim that something is life-changing. There are
really very few life-changing events. Catastrophic loss can change your life.
Marriage (an image that Isaiah uses in this very chapter) changes your life. The
birth of your children, too. If we describe every new gizmo or treatment as
life-changing, we take away from those moments that really are, well,
life-changing.
You know
what is truly life-changing? Your baptism into Christ. In baptism, the Bible
tells us that we die and rise with Christ, that our very nature is changed,
that we become a new creation. Or, to use the language of the verse above, in
Baptism we receive a new name, we become members of a new family, we are
adopted as God’s children.
I have
performed a lot of Baptisms over the years, and each one is a beautiful things.
But I do wonder sometimes. When we see an infant baptized, when we ponder our
own Baptism—do we really see the life-changing nature of the event?
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.