This isn t the only photo album we have with pictures of our son. We have many other albums full of pictures that we took as he grew up. You see, even though we were proud of him as a baby and thought he was beautiful, we didn t want him to stay a baby all of his life. It was a joy to watch him grow. This morning we saw a baptism.
Baptism is like a baby picture.
When a person walks out of the baptistery, they are babes in Christ, and I imagine that their Heavenly Father looks down upon them and is proud of them just as he was when Jesus was baptized. When Jesus came out of the water, God said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Even though God is proud of his children, he doesn t want them to remain babies all their lives. Even though God still loves them, he probably isn t very proud of them. He wants them to grow spiritually, just as they grow physically.