Even though it is one of the most plentiful substances on the planet, water might be the strangest, at least chemically speaking. H20 makes up seventy percent of the earth and seventy percent of our brains, yet it stands apart from everything else in sixty-six different ways. For example, any other gas combined with hydrogen just produces another gas, only when combined with oxygen will it make a liquid. Nothing else is found in nature a solid and liquid and gas at the same time. Most substances shrink when they cool but water expands. Water will dissolve almost anything but unlike other solvents, it doesn’t eradicate what it dissolves. You can put your hand right through it yet water is difficult to compress, essentially making it making it bulletproof.
Yet what might make water even more unusual is
that it can save you from your sins.
… when God's patience waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight
persons, were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves
you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good
conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1st Peter 3:20-21
In the days of Noah, God used water to destroy
the world, in our days he uses it to save the world, Water is the means he uses
to unite us with the resurrection of Christ (Romans 6:3-4). With water baptism,
God provides us a way to be in Christ (Galatians 3:27) and wash away our sins (Acts
22:16).
Water is everywhere
so salvation is everywhere. There is no reason to not do it. As the eunuch said
in Acts 8:36, "See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?"!
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