This thing i am taking about is Baptism. As an infant my parents baptized me and i pretty much grew up in the church. for years i attended church but it wasn't until My freshman year of high school when i truly started to recognize what a Relationship with Christ was, and was able to comprehend (as much our small minds can) what he had done for me through his birth, death, and resurrection. I was saved when i was 14. here i was now 9 years after , and the lord kept laying it on my heart to be baptized again now as someone who actually knows the Lord, in the way that baptism was intended in the first place. to Declare that i know the lord, and am determined to live for him for the rest of my days, and to give those around me the responsibility to hold me accountable to that. but here i was with my big ol pride getting in the way .... not wanting to be obedient because i didn't want people to think "oh hey did mel JUST get saved?" even though i had been a believer for 9 years already. I didn't want to have to explain the fact that "oh i just kept putting it off, and then so many years went by that i just got prideful because i didn't want people to think bad things about me after waiting so long. " Literally it was the silliest thing, but its funny what pride can do right? as days and weeks and months went by it kept coming up... the lord was definitely trying to break that pride of mine. and finally I sat and prayed, and asked the lord for forgiveness for allowing my pride to get in-between my obedience. i texted our pastor and told him that i wanted to be baptized this Easter at our annual little Easter extravaganza that we always have up at their house. All the reactions that i had anticipated were not there. looking back I giggle at my reasons for waiting so long. its just so silly ...but sometimes silliness can turn into a sin issue and once i realized that i knew i had to nip it in the bud. So here was me saying "yes lord" to something i should have done 9 years ago. ps. That water was absolutely freezing!!!!
what made this day even more special was that along with a few other people i love, i got to share this experience with one of my favorite little ladies Brynn. I am so so proud of you Brynn and i am so grateful that the lord captured your heart so young! i pray that you will continue pursuing him and loving him. That you will align all your steps in accordance with his will, and will learn to walk in his ways. always remembering the excitement you had on the day you accepted the lord into your heart, and the day that you decided to declare it to the world with your baptism. I love you sweet girl.
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