My 4 year old granddaughter sat on my lap at church Sunday and watched a young man get baptized. Usually she is in the nursery, but this Sunday she was singing with the Children's Choir and happened to be in the sanctuary. Anyway, she kept whispering questions in my ear, wanting to know exactly what was happening and why. I kept whispering back that this man was being baptized like Jesus got baptized in her Bible. "But Nana, Jesus didn't get baptized in a bathtub!" and on and on the discussion went.
We talked about baptism most of the day and she told everyone she saw Sunday that "Curtis" was baptized in the bathtub at church and "got" the Holy Spirit, but Jesus didn't have a bathtub, and He got baptized in a river by His "friend", John. AND, that she wasn't gonna get baptized any time soon because she had already been "dedicated" and she didn't wanna get baptized because she didn't like to get water in her eyes, BUT her Nana and Peppaw and Daddy already were baptized. Whew!
Not only did she want to share everything she knew about the whole subject of baptism with anyone that would listen, on Monday night she even "baptized" her Ariel the Mermaid doll in the bathtub - not once, but three times... lol.
I wonder why it's so hard for us to witness and little kids don't have any problem at all with it?
Matthew 19:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
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