See This Wonder in the Making

See This Wonder in the Making

LSB #593

v. 1: See this wonder in the making:

God Himself this child is taking

As a lamb safe in His keeping,

His to be, awake or sleeping.

v. 4: Here we bring a child of nature;

Home we take a newborn creature,

Now God’s precious son or daughter,

Born again by Word and water.

Yes! Something really, truly happens in baptism! Not because of what we do, but because God has put His Word and promise with water, that when baptism is done in His Name, He is the one doing something truly wondrous here. He is the Good Shepherd taking this child up in His arms as His little lamb. Day and night, He will watch over, protect, and keep His lamb. We sleep, but He never does. And so this child (or adult!) now baptized is different, changed. No longer just a child of nature, but now reborn as a child of God. Did you see it? Not with your physical eyes. Physically, baptism looks of less use than a bath or a shower at home. But there is more going on here than meets the eye! It is the reality that enters our ears, so that we see spiritually that no bath or shower could do what baptism does - for it washes away not just the dirt of our body, but our sins! The dirt of our souls. That is the washing we need, no matter what age we are. And we have it. Always. Believe it! I am baptized! A precious child of God.