Wiley One

Sunday March 3rd, 1 Corinthians 10: 1 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. 2 They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 3 They all ate the same spiritual food 4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered over the desert. Baptism is not fire insurance; it is a calling, a relationship and a grafting into body of Christ. Baptism is not the beginning of the process; it is the public celebration of a process that began at your birth. Baptism is not a solo event, as you are grafted onto the body of “Christ”; you are grafted into a connection, a relationship, with all the other parts of the “Body of Christ.” The generation that crossed through wilderness, including Moses, did not enter the promise land. What entered into the promise was a new creation, a new relationship. When we enter the promise land, it too is a new creation for us singularly and for us as a part of the body made new in Christ. As the baptized the children of God, we may not know where we are going, the road ahead has many twists and turns and a lot of compost, but there is one guarantee about this journey, we are never alone. God has promised to walk with us and re-graft us to that body whenever we fall, or are knocked off by that “Wiley One” we often refer to as life.