Baptized Today 2-3-08
Current mood: blessed
Category: Religion and Philosophy


I wrote this to read at our baptism today! It was such a good service!

Praise the Lord!!! Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty!!! Amen!!!!

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Bucky and I have chosen to be baptized today in order to keep the commands of the Lord spoken by Peter in Acts 2:38 saying, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." As we feel that neither of us had a truly repentant heart when we were baptized before, we believe that the Lord has put it upon our hearts to be baptized again.

With this action, we are committing our lives and dedicating our marriage to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We vow to strive to keep this commitment, through the working of the Holy Ghost in our hearts, until our last breath. We vow to henceforth bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, training them up in the way they should go so when they are old, they will not depart from it. We vow to keep fellowship with other believers and to teach the Gospel to all who have ears to hear. We vow to use the gifts and talents and resources that the Lord will bless us with to further advance the coming kingdom of Christ. We vow to use our tongues only to edify the body of Christ. We vow to study to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

We know that all things come together for the good of those who love Christ, and we know that if we love Him, we will keep His commands. We love Him because He first loved us. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. The lives which we now live in the flesh, we live by the faith of the son of God, who loved us, and gave Himself for us. No returning in us you'll find, we're too near our heavenly home where we'll abide. Praise the Lord, we are REDEEMED!!!