Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

As the Eternal Father, at the baptism of Christ, declared, "This is My beloved Son," so all who believe and are baptized receive the adoption of sons. As the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove, at Christ's baptism, so He is also present at our baptism and gives it all its efficacy; nay, more, communicates Himself to believing souls in this holy ordinance and so worketh in them that "they become wise as serpents and harmless as doves." -- Johann Gerhard, *Sacred Meditations* XVII