God's Power in Baptism

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God's Power in Baptism

I enjoyed your devotional. You did well to bring to mind the things of God's doing that we don't see even though they are here because he has said they are.

The thought I see is sometimes missed because of imprecise teaching or skipping lightly over the evidence God gives us. I am thinking of the working of God in the act of baptism. Peter was not speaking words with no meaning when he told his listeners that if they would repent and be baptized, their sins would be forgiven by God since he is the only one who can forgive sin. Peter was not using the act of baptism as a sign of already being "saved" when they had believed but in the unseen work of God's love in action, the actual forgiveness of sin. Those who were baptized were able to have a clear conscience about their sin since it had been erased from the mind of God. This fact cannot be seen but is true in the spiritual realm. Then, as proof that God declared those baptized people were his children and joint heirs with Jesus, He gave them the gift of His Holy Spirit.

I don’t know how to explain this invisible greatness of God's love any better than this, but your devotional has brought it out of my thinking. I have to give God credit for using your writing to help me express how the actual effect of baptism is the invisible thing that happens and not just the body getting wet.

Thank you for your writing. Keep your heart in heaven and your eyes in His word.

This was written in response to a Faith writer’s devotional on about 6/10/2020

Larry E. Whittington.