Baptism bawling

I admit, I cry a lot. I cry at movies, and I especially tear up at parent-offspring or loved-ones separation. Bambi's mom dying? Bawled. Message in a bottle? Bawled.

And I also cry at God's grace, His love, His mercy...for everything He is. I cry out of gratitude that He died on the cross in my place. I cry out of shame that He even had to do that. And I bawl my eyes out when I see how REAL He is, in the lives of others. The 6 testimonies at the baptism just had me bawling up a river. One after the other, they came up, each with their own stories of God's work in their lives. Some went through really dark moments, and others didn't. But the thing that tied them all together was that each of them realized their dire need for Jesus Christ in their lives.

I know there's historical evidence for the existence of Christ. I know there are accounts of His miracles, His death, and His resurrection. The thing that proves His existence to me, though, is His transforming work in the lives of countless millions of people, and His transforming work in my own life. He is REAL. And He is so good.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. - 2 Corinthians 5:17-21