Saturday, January 12, 2002
Saturday, January 12, 2002
And people from the whole Judean countryside and all the people of
Jerusalem were going out to him, and were baptized by him in the river Jordan,
confessing their sins.
(Mark 1.5
NRSV)
Pastor Martin B. Hellriegel once returned to Hepperheim in Germany where he was
born. It was also the place he had been baptized. He would go to the parish church and
put his hands reverently on the baptismal font. And think deep thoughts. They were
thoughts of gratitude for all that he had received, from parents, from his church--and
from God. They were thoughts of renewal, and rededication to his calling as a disciple,
a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ. It began with his baptism, right there, at that font.
The church was ancient; generations before him had received the gift. How could he be
faithless to this calling? Baptism signifies that it is God who has saved us. It is God who
has called us.
Dear God, when everything in our lives seems to create chaos, remind me of my
baptism and my calling to serve you and your people. Amen.
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