On Baptism

I am getting baptized tomorrow. I've waited a long time for this moment. These past two years walking with the Lord have been incredible. I'm still in awe of what Christ has done for me. It brings tears to my eyes to meditate on the atonement. This is where words fail me. How can I articulate the overwhelming gratitude in my heart? It is times like these that I wish I had command of a larger vocabulary. I want words to express my feelings, but there are none.
Christ is my Lord and Savior, Reedemer and Friend. He has rescued me from darkness and healed my broken heart. I want to spend forever with him, and he has promised me that one day I will!

Christ died for us. Such a simple, simple statement. But, Oh! The power of the truth behind those words. God the Son became man and lived a perfect life. Then at just the right time, he died for the ungodly. He died so that I, a wrathful rebellious enemy of God, could one day be drawn unto himself. I am justified by faith and have peace with God because he offered himself on the cross at Calvary. He took the full wrath of God for all my sins. In considering this, I loose my breath. I want to weep with gratitude. I was a slave to sin, in bondage to death. Now I am a slave of Christ, whose love brings life ever lasting.

Oh, the unsearchable love of Christ. Oh how I long to look upon his face and sing his praises forever.

^"Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice:
“ Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”
And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:
“ Blessing and honor and glory and power
Be to Him who sits on the throne,
And to the Lamb, forever and ever!”
Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped Him who lives forever and ever. ~ Revelation 5:11-14