Mik Takes the Mighty Plunge!!!

God hears our prayers!  Jesus saves!

Colossians 2:11-15The Message (MSG)

11-15 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in—insiders—not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. If it’s an initiation ritual you’re after, you’ve already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ’s cross. He stripped all the spiritual tyrants in the universe of their sham authority at the Cross and marched them naked through the streets.

Today on his very own, to all of our thrill and surprise, Mik stepped up and got baptized. 

 He made his decision and he was ready,

 right now,

 today,

 with no delay. 

  He stepped into that water trough like a boss while Charlie and I stood there fighting the ugly cry.

Baptism is a frequent subject around our house as Charlie has the awesome privilege of helping with baptisms at our church on a regular basis. 

 Charlie loves baptism and is passionate about it.

 I have asked Mik several times in the past what he thinks of baptism...and he has been very honest.

  He felt reluctant and unsure of what he believed. 

 I was thankful for his honesty and it broke my heart at the same time.

  I began praying for him.  I began asking God to reveal Himself in a very personal way to our son.  I began asking God to save Mik and draw Mik to Himself and to reveal His love to him.  

  In the last few months  Mik would randomly come to me with really hard questions about God.

  I knew he had a lot on his heart and in his mind, but I just let the Lord do His thing and didn't pressure him (even though I REEEEEALY wanted to.)  

  Mik has not had an easy life....he has been dealt a lot of pain and  loss and injustice in his young life.  

He wasn't sure how to make sense of all his experience in this life and what he was hearing at home and at church.  

Today Mik decided on his own he would just take the plunge and make a public confession of his faith in Jesus Christ.  

Charlie was so choked up and surprised he could hardly say the words.  

Mik did not take this decision lightly, he took it very seriously and personally and we couldn't be prouder of him or happier for him.

I know all his questions are not answered, but his heart is set to follow Jesus, and as he walks and talks with Him, over time, he will grow in his faith and in his trust.  

God will show himself faithful and trustworthy because that is who HE is and what He does.

I am doubly blessed today!!!

  I have a son who has made the public decision to follow Jesus and I have been reminded that God hears my prayers and answers with the

 love of a good good Father.

1 John 3:1English Standard Version (ESV)

3 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.