Newly Baptised..

I've made the step to proclaim my faith to the world. I've just got baptised. I've been wanting to get baptised for quite a long time, say, 3 and a half years? Simply amazing why it took so long for me to get baptised huh? I was supposed to be baptised about 4 months ago but I was in RBS and I couldn't make it to the baptism.

During the 4 months since the last baptism, I have gone through many ups and downs in my life. I had drifted away from God. I experienced lonliness, mild depression and idleness. Nothing prepared me to go through the waters of baptism.

Then it came to my realization. I cant afford to make descisions based on my own personal feelings. If I'd continue to make emotionally drived descisions, I'll never be baptised because I'll never feel that I'll be ready. It is a sacrifice that I have to make on my behalf. So, I beat my body and make it my slave. I make concious efforts to remind and convince myself that baptism is good for me. And it is.

There are many hopes that I have for myself in the future. I want badly to be a good Christian, a faithful servant and I want very badly to live up to my proclaimation of faith. Most important of all, I want to glorify God with my life and maybe oneday, someday, someone will remember me as a person who loved God and lived for God. May the day come when people will look at my grave and see a testimony of God's grace in my life.

I want to leave a legacy of faith to this world. I want to encourage those who have fallen down, even when I'm no longer around. Every time someone's baptism comes around, I feel the urge to sing this song. Partly because I'm convicted that the lyrics are meaningful, but mostly beacuse the song speaks of my desire. I'd like to share a few stanzas from the song.

Surrounded by a cloud of many witnesses,
Let us run this race not only for the prize,
But to those who've gone before us,
Let them leave to those behind us,
A stirring testament of God's sustaining grace.

O' may all who come behind me find me faithful,
May the fire of devotion light the way,
May the footprints that I leave,
Lead them to believe,
And the life I live inspire them to obey,
O' may all who come behind me find me faithful.

When every thing we hoped for,
Has come and gone,
And my children sift through all that's left behind,
May the memories they uncover,
And the truths that they discover,
Lead them to the path that each of us must find.