In your Christian life, you will have moments where you will drop the ball, but the good news of baptism is that your status with God doesn’t rest on your faith- it rests on God’s faith in you.
We are not safe and secure because we are holding onto God; we are safe and secure because God’s promise is that His grip on us is always greater than our grip on Him.
God doesn’t just give you a second chance to succeed – He gives you a second Adam; a new family. In baptism, God is saying that you used to be a part of the lineage of Adam, but that person is now dead and buried, and you have been raised to new life to be a part of a new family; the family of the new Adam – Jesus Christ.
God has given you a new life in the second Adam and day by day you will look more and more like him.
Your old sinful nature has died and is buried. Yes, you still sin, but when you sin, you are now doing something outside of your nature.
When you were in the first Adam, you were on a trajectory that lead from sin to death, but you are now in the family of the second Adam, and this new trajectory leads from faithfulness to obedience and new life.
Baptism is the starter’s pistol in the Christian life, not the finish line.
God’s promises to us in baptism are a new life, a new nature, and a new family.
