11-12"I'm baptizing you here in the river, turning your old life in for a kingdom life. The real action comes next: The main character in this drama—compared to him I'm a mere stagehand—will ignite the kingdom life within you, a fire within you, the Holy Spirit within you, changing you from the inside out. He's going to clean house—make a clean sweep of your lives. He'll place everything true in its proper place before God; everything false he'll put out with the trash to be burned."
16-17The moment Jesus came up out of the baptismal waters, the skies opened up and he saw God's Spirit—it looked like a dove—descending and landing on him. And along with the Spirit, a voice: "This is my Son, chosen and marked by my love, delight of my life."
I love the following(same) verse from NKJV...
16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He[c] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 17 And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Daddy God so loves us that HE proudly proclaimed from the heavens (above) to the whole earth(below), that whoever dwells IN Jesus, dwells in the secret place of the most high, delights HIM. The sky is of vast multitudes, way way high up!!! Yet Daddy God so wants the world to know how much HE loves us, that HE proudly announces to the whole earth(in HIS clear, loud discerning voice of authority) of HIS love for us. And we are marked to be lavishly loved!
And the REAL LIFE action comes! That our mistakes, past are no longer remembered! As mentioned in verse 11, 12, we are lit up once more, with the glory of the Holy spirit and with fire. We are gloriously shinning, burning with great energy and warmth! Our past life is cleansed and even burnt away. Know what's left after a great burn? The marred, black ash! Our mistakes are now marred and not visible to anyone anymore. And the wind shall blow all these marred ash away. Now, we are transformed from the inside out coz we're perfected by Daddy God's love for us.
In HIS way, in HIS love, we are tenderly molded for the better. In HIS time, our mountains are bread for us to prepare us for the better. Let's enlarge our hearts' capacity for changes and even more growth to come. =)
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