Posts Tagged ‘repentance’
Author: Ned
As I enjoyed our Sunday baptism service, which was all about people telling stories of how they came to Jesus, I hearkened back to a chapter in The Jesus Creed which viewed the baptism of Jesus like I had never seen before. I remembered a new angle for reflecting on Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River, and why it is such a powerful image for me even today as I watched people take the plunge.
You may recall that before Jesus arrived, John the Baptist was calling people to repent—that is, to change their strategies for living and coping and seek God’s way instead. It was time to make a clear and decisive change from the past, humbled by the reality of personal darkness and aided by the Spirit of God. It’s easy to see why everyone else was “going under” – they wanted to stop living independently of God’s truth and love and forge a new direction in a right relationship with Him. That’s a no-brainer.
So why did Jesus do it? What did he have to repent of?
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