~~Water baptism~~

02-02-2020 is a very special date for me,this is the day that I got baptized. Just to give a little bit of context of my journey with Christ ; I gave my life to the Lord back in 2009, when a friend invited me to a Saturday afternoon bible study. Ever since then i was more intrigued about God and wanted to know more about him. I started attending church,watching sermons and reading my bible.

After some time,being young and still wanting to experience life in the world ,I went astray from God and started living life by my own terms.However, God was always there with me he never left me nor forsaked me. Living life by my own terms never really satisfied me,my soul was screaming and yearning for more, I felt like there had to be more to life than the life I was living. I tried to live for God again but my fleshly desires kept on pulling me to the world,I was half in half out,Luke warm if you may call it.No matter how far I ran from God,there he was,his love kept chasing me down. I wanted to change but it was so difficult to do so. I could relate to Paul in Romans 7:15 when he said “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do”

The things I wanted to do I didn’t and the things I didn’t want to do I kept on doing. Its not until I realized that by my own strength I wasn’t able to change and had to surrender to God, and that only God has the power to help me live for him and so I stopped running away from God when things got difficult. I decided to stay and ask for God to help me change no matter how long it takes.I know I’m not perfect ,but there is a perfect savior who died for me on the cross even when I was yet a sinner so that I could have relationship with God. I know that there is nothing I can do that would make him stop loving me, and this grace made me want to change and to surrender to him. I wont say my journey has been easy but it’s definitely worth it. One thing I can say is I’m constantly seeking God , trying to be better and do better for Christ. God is working on me,molding me and shaping me to be more like him . I’m grateful that he is a loving and patient father. All he wants is our hearts he knows that we cannot change our self by our own strength,but he empowers us to be transformed into his image. I might not be where I want to be on this journey ,but I thank God I’m not where I used to be. I’m a work in progress, and I’m confident that he who began a good work in me will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).

Read more about baptism by clicking on these links below.

1. https://hillsong.com/south-africa/blog/2015/11/what-is-baptism/#.XkF9j2gza1s
2. https://revivenations.org/blog/2012/01/27/baptism/
3. https://www.gty.org/library/blog/B130131/navigating-the-waters-of-baptism

~Love and light

Vee