You the baptizee are being claimed, named, identified - set apart for something special. You are being ordained into the ministry of Christ. Flaunt the water. Something big is happening here. Each day we must learn to die, to get go, to be plunged under the waters so that God might pull us forth like newborn babies.
Baptism is a dress rehearsal for death.
We must die many deaths, and we must be born again and again and again. As Luther put it so wryly, - the old Adam must be drowned daily because the old Adam is a good swimmer. B aptism is about grace. Grace is a gift. A gift implies dependency and dependency raises questions about our pretensions of omnipotence.