Reckoned at the River

Sometimes we feel bad, we get down, or we come under temptation, and we forget what God has done for us. We forget how powerfully He has pulled us out of sin, so we fall back into it. We forget how we felt when we first received new life, and now it seems like we no longer live in it. Water baptism, like the Lord’s Supper, is as a sign of a sealing in the Holy Spirit, that we share before others. It’s also a REMINDER, so we will not fall (1 Cor 10:12). It’s a REMINDER that we can RECKON back to, knowing we have been RELEASED from sin’s power and RECEIVED the Holy Spirit.