In 2017, I knelt under a tree in someone’s back yard I rededicated my life to the Lord. I had spent my whole life following God without having an actual relationship with Him. I began my journey in relationship with the Lord that day and never looked back. I wanted to shout my love for Him then and even more now.
When people get married they sign the official papers, often times before the ceremony. A marriage license represents a covenant, or promise, to one another to live every day loving and pursuing each other through the good and the bad days. The wedding ceremony is a public declaration of this covenant to one another, others, and God. I made my promise to God when I was 10 and rededicated my life to Him when I was 24. Now at 26, I want to declare Jesus as Lord of my life.
Last night on the beaches of Jaco, Costa Rica I got baptized. I went under the water as the excited little girl I was the first time I got baptized and I came out of the water the woman I am today. A woman in relationship with the Father, a woman that understands what it truly means. There was something so beautiful about being baptized as an adult. When I was young I knew God, but now I invite Him in everyday.
I asked the Lord for a verse the morning before being Baptized:
“16 So then, from now on, we have a new perspective that refuses to evaluate people merely by their outward appearances. For that’s how we once viewed the Anointed One, but no longer do we see him with limited human insight. 17 Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new creation. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new. 18 And God has made all things new,and reconciled us to himself, and given us the ministry of reconciling others to God. 19 In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God. 20 We are ambassadors of the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleading with them directly through our lips. So we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to him.”
Newness, missions, seeing others through His lense-all of these are things I’m walking through and learning from the Lord. He was so intentional in highlighting this verse for me. I want to be just as intentionaI with our relationship. I want to wake up choosing Him every single day!
