Baptism

It's been about a year since I've been water baptized out in Kansas city at the International House of Prayer. It also happens to be my weekend off, and I've been able to get away and reflect on the last year. I came across an entry written in my journal after the baptism describing it as one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

"It is the beginning of a new season, of new life in Christ. Oh what joy comes after death. Now I think I know that death shouldn't be feared at all...because death of the flesh, the death that I experienced in the water was wonderful, so wonderful that I almost wanted to remain in those waters forever. And maybe thats why we're supposed to stay in the death, like death in the water tank under the baptism waters, what a sweet sweet place. Quiet, silent, peaceful, melodious, the sound of water, the voices of the world stilled the voice of the Lord heightened "death in the flesh means life in me. Oh the joy."

Colossians 2:11-15
"In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful workings of God, who raised him from the dead. And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him."