“What good is baptism?” We can answer that one of the primary gifts that is given to us in our baptism is the confidence that no matter what comes into our life, no matter what suffering, no matter what spiritual depression and dark night of the soul, we can be confident, above all things, not only that God is good and loving in general, but that God is good to me in particular, that God loves me, that I have indeed been engrafted into Christ, that my sins have been forgiven by Christ’s blood, that I have been regenerated by his Spirit, that I have been adopted into the family of God, and if he has done all that for me, he will surely also remember me on the last day, in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. In other words, one of the reasons that baptism is given to us is so that, to use the language of the great protestant pastors Martin Luther and John Calvin, we would remember our baptisms. Not that we would remember the day of our baptisms, remember the feeling of water on our head or what…
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