The Beginning

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! Due to the popular request of being updated frequently on the events in my life, I thought the easiest way to make sure nobody misses anything is to start a blog. So here it is; I hope you all enjoy it and I thank you very much for your prayers and support. I hope I can keep these entries exciting for you, I've never blogged before but I plan on doing my best. 

Today I had the awesome experience of being baptized by my father. This event was witnessed only by the rest of my family and was very special. As we live on a lake it made full sense to make use of the waters. It was a great idea really, but let's take into consideration the way the weather has been recently. Actually instead of doing that, I'll just tell you that it was freezing cold. After my dad had spouted off a few Bible verses that greater opened my eyes to why I was doing this act, I took a few steps into the welcoming cold. It was cold, very cold, but it did not deter me. I had to do it today. For some unknown reason I had waited my entire life to take this step, and it wasn't an option to postpone it any longer. I denied my body the will to resist and stepped further into the lake, with the waves lapping against my waist. In this position I braced myself as my dad prepared to dunk me. Down I went, the water coming over my chest and then my face. As quickly as I went under, I came back up, ready to force my heart to keep beating. I thought for sure I was going to feel the need to run to shore and remind my blood to keep flowing. Remarkably though, I felt warm. It was a warmth I had never felt before, apparently eminating from somewhere within my being. I walked calmly back to shore with a minor sense of accomplishment. "I did it," I thought to myself, but was disappointed that nothing else seemed to happen. Then I looked to my family and told myself "no, everything that was supposed to happen did happen." It was true, I marked the end of who I was and stepped boldly into the beginning of something new. Something exciting, and something that I am going to share as much as I can on this little webpage. It didn't have to be something earth shaking, I am going to walk humbly with the Lord and have no need for fireworks to proclaim the start. 

To explain why my baptism was so important to be done today I will say that exactly three months ago I started the Daniel Company internship. In these three months God did a great work on my heart and on my priorities. During this time I received many words from many people that things were going to be accelerated in my life. In the three months God also showed me various pictures of His plans for me and they greatly excited me. One day (actually the last day of the internship) I asked about water baptism out of curiosity, as I had never been. I learned that it wasn't just something done out of religion for no real reason, but that it actually marks something in the spirit. It changes something. Okay then, I guess this is something I need to do. As I thought more about it I remembered when Jesus was baptized. After 30 years of seeking his father, he was baptized into his ministry to go and shake things up with authority. The thought then dropped into my head that as I planned to put my stake down and start ministering to my parent's camp, together with my words of acceleration, that maybe the three months I spent seeking the Lord could parellel Jesus' thirty. I then decided that that was what I was going to do. 

With today's dying to the old self, I hereby declare that I am going to live my life dedicated to seeking the Lord and walking in his destiny and purposes for me. I will not be hindered by anything. Right now I pledge my allegiance fully to the lamb and step forward in confidence that God has a perfect will for my life and that I am going to find it and take each step on it. Amen.

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For those of you that I have invited to this blog, I love you all very much. If you are reading this it means I trust you with my life and I invite everyone of you to hold me to my pledge. As my witnesses I welcome you all to constructive critisism and necessary rebukes. Thanks, and God bless.