Baptism – Getting Married to Christ (19)
When we receive Christ joyfully, sincerely and intelligently into our hearts, with baptism we tell the world “I have decided to follow Jesus”, I now belong to Him.
In a very similar way it’s like marriage. Because the church or it’s members, is symbolized as the wife, Christ is now our husband. A successful marriage relationship will need truthfulness, loyalty, love, endurance, patience and other-like adjectives.
W may be in the same body, but our mind, strength, desires, passions and ambitions are no longer used for selfishness but for that which makes Christ smile.
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