Blessed Assurance

After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized (for John had not yet been put in prison).

Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him." John answered,"A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.' The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease."

-John 3:23-30

April 11, 2010, I will be baptized.

God has been working in my heart to understand what it truly means when I say that Christ is my husband.

Yes, baptism is a symbolic representation of the cleansing and redeeming powers of my Father and is symbolic of being born again in Him. But, there are other aspects of baptism that seem to be left out.

I look at my baptism as more or less than a ceremony of my commitment.

My love for Christ goes above and beyond. My baptism will ultimately be a ceremony of how much I love and adore Christ. He is the Husband of my soul, and it will be wonderful to share that moment with my church home. It's almost as if my baptism will be symbolic of my marriage/wedding ceremony with Christ.

This is a picture of my school ring from Loudonville Christian,

LCS being the place where I first fell in love with my Husband.