While it’s not necessarily the most theologically accurate song on the topic, I very much enjoy Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water.” To be honest, Carrie Underwood
could probably sing the phone book and I’d thoroughly enjoy it. (And for those who don’t know what a phone book is, just keep that to yourselves, please.) Particularly, I just love the bridge:
And now I’m singin’ all along to Amazing Grace
Can’t nobody wipe this smile off my face
Got joy in my heart, angels on my side.
Thinkin’ about it, I saw the Lord
Gonna look ahead, no turnin’ back
Live every day, give it all that I have
Trusted someone bigger than me
Ever since the day that I believed.
And while there’s not necessarily something in the water, there is something incredibly special about believer’s baptism. The translation of the word means “to immerse.” Paul tells us in his letter to the believers in Romans, Therefore we were buried with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the
Father, so we too may walk in newness of life. (take some time today and read Romans 6)
While baptism is not what saves us… it’s not what changes us… it does provide an incredible testimony to the saving work of Jesus Christ that has taken place in our lives – His
death, burial, and resurrection AS WELL AS our death, burial, and resurrection with Him.
And now I’m changed (because of Jesus)
And now I’m stronger (because of the Holy Spirit)
Today, we celebrate as friends and family members share what Christ has done in their lives. But for some of us, today is also an invitation. Not necessarily to join us in the water (that comes later), but to join us in eternity through a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Raised to walk in newness of life… Can’t nobody wipe this smile off my face!