EPHESIANS 4:4-6

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called;  one Lord, one faith, one baptism;  one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all

 TO PONDER

 When a believer comes to faith in Christ, they are called to be baptized and to profess their faith publicly before entering the full life of the church - its fellowship, and worship. In doing so, the believer commits to being one with Christ and with his people in the one body of Christ, the one family of God.  Going through baptism, the believer goes into the water as their old life entering into death. They come out of water with a new life of the resurrection of Jesus. Baptism always involves a kind of blessing. So does living it. And Christians of every denomination share this blessing together in one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

PRAYER: Lord, thank you for receiving us into your one covenant family through baptism. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, wrap up all our differences in your eternal dance of oneness, and teach us to delight in you.

Today's devotion written by Francis Leung, LifeWay Epping