The other night I had a dream, and though I am not one to blindly believe that all dreams (or even very many of them) will come true, I do not ignore them either. I love the spiritual dreams though. They do not come very often, but when they do they always make me think about that particular topic the whole day following the dream.A week or so ago I dreamed about baptism. It was just simply an analogy that has made me rethink the meaning of baptism, and I've been thinking about it all week! I don't really remember a lot of detail, but it was such a cool analogy.
Okay, so most Christians have heard the analogy of the wedding ring, that baptism SHOWS others that we are a Christian like a wedding ring shows people we are married. My dream did not agree with that!
Baptism is actually more like the wedding CEREMONY. When a couple is in love and decides to spend the rest of their life together, they make a commitment, a covenant to each other, in front of the whole world (or at least 2 witnesses). When a person decides to follow Christ, they make it official and make a public commitment in front of the whole world that they have decided to follow Christ!
I shared this with Myles, and he thought about it for a few minutes then added even more. The wedding RING is similar to our spiritual fruit. Matthew 7:20 says, "Therefore by their fruits you will know them." And we know someone is married by seeing a ring on their finger. Cool, huh? :)
What do you think?
Ds1 will be baptized this coming Sunday, August 2nd. We had a talk with him about what it means to be a Christian......to be a true follower of Christ, and that means daily! We have seen him maturing so much lately. He has been asking some of the deepest questions and is showing more responsibility. There was a time when he was younger when he "asked Jesus into his heart" (which is not exactly biblical), and he remembers it well, but he hasn't really been a Christ follower and taken up his cross daily. He says he is ready to make that commitment! Praise God!!! Dd1 will probably be baptized soon too, but we tried to have the same conversation with her and she was giggly and distracted. She has said for a while now that she is a Christian and wants to follow Christ daily, and we will encourage her to do that, but we just don't think she is ready to make that public commitment yet. Soon though, Lord-willing!
►Galatians 3:26-27
ReplyDeleteFor you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Great verse! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat's great, thanks for sharing. I am LDS, and we totally agree with that understanding of baptism as a covenant and promising to be a witness of Christ. We also take sacrament every Sunday, a weekly renewing of this covenant for us to remember Christ and take his name upon us. I started teaching my son this when we was small, I didn't want him thinking sacrament was just a snack. It's so great to have a time each week to stop and ponder our relationship with the savior :)
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