Here it is! The moment we've been waiting for. Edit: the moment I have been waiting for. I will be baptized on February 3, 2011!
It was decided this Sunday; the time had just come. I could feel it, I knew it and I have SO much more to say on the matter...! I've been wanting to blog about it all week, but I've been so excited, everything that comes out from beneath my fingers and into the computer just doesn't catch everything that I'm feeling! The amount and emphasis and feeling available to express myself here is so limited by silly words and letters.
I will never be able to be perfect, but I'm willing to dedicate my life to striving for it.
--and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ
1 Peter 3:21
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
January Check-in
Hello Readership,
I haven't written in a long time. I apologize. Recently I've taken up reading the New Testament. I hope to finish it in about 5 months. It's amazing really, reading it. It's addictive, exciting, moving. When I read I keep a journal with me and take notes on things that confuse me, that I don't understand, that I find exceptionally powerful; really, just about anything. After reading Matthew, my notes were somewhat more overwhelming than I intended, but so be it. I've been fortunate on some days to read in the presence of someone knowledgeable in the bible and God's great love, who helps me explore deeper the truth I am reading, and it truly, truly is a blessing. I cannot tell you, although I hope you are all familiar with, what an immense feeling it is to open the Bible, read, and freely, openly, enthusiastically discuss it with another. It is one great thing to study openly in church, but to leave and find outside the church's walls other spirits as excited and curious as you by the Word... is regeneration for the heart impossible to replicate. At least, I feel it is so.
I'm drawing ever nearer to my baptism. It's a matter of days possibly, or perhaps a few weeks; I have personal issues I need to pray on as it nears. The closer it comes, the more the absolute, extreme, unyielding realization of my need for baptism grows and grows. In my heart, I desire above all else to be baptized into the Lord's great Church, and curl up in his arms and stay there forever. I am absolutely the definition of in no way worthy, but the Lord is faithful, and if I ask and believe, so shall I receive. So, Readership, if you are so inclined and willing, I am going to go ahead and ask for your prayers. Please pray for me, and pray for those in my life. Those who I have hurt, those who I have sinned against, and those to who I might someday be a source of light, like the multitude of Good people have been to me.
I haven't written in a long time. I apologize. Recently I've taken up reading the New Testament. I hope to finish it in about 5 months. It's amazing really, reading it. It's addictive, exciting, moving. When I read I keep a journal with me and take notes on things that confuse me, that I don't understand, that I find exceptionally powerful; really, just about anything. After reading Matthew, my notes were somewhat more overwhelming than I intended, but so be it. I've been fortunate on some days to read in the presence of someone knowledgeable in the bible and God's great love, who helps me explore deeper the truth I am reading, and it truly, truly is a blessing. I cannot tell you, although I hope you are all familiar with, what an immense feeling it is to open the Bible, read, and freely, openly, enthusiastically discuss it with another. It is one great thing to study openly in church, but to leave and find outside the church's walls other spirits as excited and curious as you by the Word... is regeneration for the heart impossible to replicate. At least, I feel it is so.
I'm drawing ever nearer to my baptism. It's a matter of days possibly, or perhaps a few weeks; I have personal issues I need to pray on as it nears. The closer it comes, the more the absolute, extreme, unyielding realization of my need for baptism grows and grows. In my heart, I desire above all else to be baptized into the Lord's great Church, and curl up in his arms and stay there forever. I am absolutely the definition of in no way worthy, but the Lord is faithful, and if I ask and believe, so shall I receive. So, Readership, if you are so inclined and willing, I am going to go ahead and ask for your prayers. Please pray for me, and pray for those in my life. Those who I have hurt, those who I have sinned against, and those to who I might someday be a source of light, like the multitude of Good people have been to me.
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