07 January 2010
God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit...
...are in and with that water, as at the Jordan where Christ stood in the water, and the Holy Spirit hovered overhead, while God the Father preached withal. Accordingly, baptism is water that can take away sin, death, and all evil, and help us come to heaven and eternal life. So it has become a priceless sugar water, fragrant nectar, and medicine because God has interposed Himself. God is a God of life and can make alive. Because He is in this water, it must be a true aqua vitae, "water of life", which drives death and hell away, and makes eternally alive. -- Blessed Martin Luther, Homily 3 upon Epiphany, House Postils I:221,222
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Seed, water, bread, fruit, trees...how can we miss how God takes these things He created, that we see so often around us it would seem impossible for them to be anything but "natural", and makes them supernatural. And that not just to impress us, but to save us. God does indeed hide behind what to us seems ordinary and mundane, but whom among us can call a tree into existance, cause it to give wisdom or life, and then die on it?
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