I TOOK IT TO THE WATER,

Today was my baptism day at my church, Greater Saint James Missionary Baptist Church, , I took it to the water. All the family came out to support me and it felt good to spend some time with the family. My little brother and his wife came to visit and it felt good to spend time with my little brother. Its always good to see him.

I used to think about getting baptized all the time in the past. I was just always hesitant about doing it because I wanted to stay running the streets. Thinking I was going to miss something. Boy how stupid was I. I should of gave my life to Christ long time ago. When I look back at my life I understand why I went through the things I went through. Like the sermon today when Pastor Buckner was talking about how god prepares us for the time when we answer his call.

The pastor also was talking about how when you call on Jesus or except his invitation, we become different people. We start to walk, talk, think, and see things in a different light. I can really relate to that because before I became saved I used to see  the world in a really distorted way. Its like everything I thought about had some type of corruption to it. I mean I was not a bad person but I did some really un godly things. I use to say to myself. I need to stop drinking or doing drugs or being sexually immoral. I could not understand why I could not stop doing them things. I wanted to stop but the urge was so strong to continue to do these ungodly acts and speak in such an ungodly way.

Now that I'm saved and I look back at why it was so hard to stop them things, I understand why, because of that one letter word, I. I was always saying I need to do this and that. I I I. But when I stopping saying I and said JESUS...and really said that name with sensitivity and conviction, the taste for all them ungodly acts were gone,, It was really amazing to me how the taste for drugs, and everything else I was doing to corrupt my mind, body and soul disappeared. I could not see an end to my cravings,,So now for me not to even feel none of that in my head,,it feels so good.

Being baptized today was another awesome feeling. A funny situation about it though is when I was in the water it was so cold I could not catch my breath, so when the time came for me to get dunked, I was so short of breath that I really could not hold my breath to go under water so I was like in panic mode but the pastor took care of me and let me back up just in time for me to catch my breath..Lol,,it was kind of funny and we joked about it for a few min or so..

God is good, I really am a new person. It feels really good to be following the lord and really truly believe in my heart and soul that my life is saved through the blood of Christ. I truly truly thank my lord and savoir for not giving up on me while I was living that UN-godly life. There was many times I could of been gone, hurt real bad or something, but the lord kept walking with me knowing that he had a plan for my life,, so hear I am still standing and walking with Jesus Christ and I love it..

~God bless you all~