#acts836

I'm getting baptized tomorrow! I am super excited. I'm a little unique in that I've been saved for about ten years and have basically procrastinated my baptism. I for a long time have been worried about feeling judged for waiting so long. I thought people would think "wow, she seems like the type who would have been baptized a long time ago." "why did she wait so long?" etc. But I've finally realized that I don't need to care!! What a great feeling :) I'm getting baptized at youth group, which has a lot of perks. One is that I'm sharing my testimony with almost all people that I know very well. Also, these are people that are going to accept and love me no matter what. It's also cool that I'm doing it at youth group because it'll be my last one. Okay actually that part is really depressing. I will miss youth group like NONE OTHER. My goodness. It'll be emotional. Anyhow, the verse Acts 8:36 is what God used to get my attention just last weekend. It says in the NLT version: "As they rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Look! There's some water? Why can't I be baptized?" He ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water, and Philip baptized him." Look up the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch for the context. But the verse was pretty much poking me saying, "why wait?"