The day I got baptized was a rainy spring afternoon. I remember showing up to the baptismal in a particularly foul mood. I just couldn't shake this grouchy mood and felt heavy inside.
Part of me felt like it wasn't the best day to be getting baptised since I was having these negative emotions.
But I had already set everything up and couldn't just change everything at the last minute. So I reluctantly followed through.
When I arrived at the baptismal, I was given instructions on when to step into the basin and how to hold my hands so water wouldn't go up my nose.
I remember feeling edgy and negative right up to the moment the pastor dipped me under the water.
Then something wonderful happened! When I was pulled back up from the water, I felt so full of joy! I was literally dancing in place I was so excited. I couldn't wipe the smile from my face and that heavy feeling I had experienced just moments ago had completely left me!
Loved ones gathered around to pray for me and my Grandma gave me a beautiful gold cross necklace that said "paid in full" on it.
I'll never forget the drive back home. There was the most beautiful rainbow shining through the stormy sky and I felt like God was speaking to my heart as I looked up at it.
It was like I could almost hear Him saying, "judgment is passed".
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17-
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