Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan,
to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying,
“I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now;
for it is proper for us in this way to fulfill all righteousness.”
—Matthew 3.13-15
Did Jesus need to repent?
Yes. We all do, every moment.
Even Yo-Yo Ma needs to tune up.
To repent is to turn to God.
It’s not a one time thing.
We need to turn with every breath,
keep tuning in, tuning up with every note.
Jesus let his self-centered self drown
and be raised as a new person
with a new name, Beloved,
and he devoted his life to living that way:
that dying and rising each moment,
vulnerable to the Spirit’s leading,
in tune with God,
attentive.
We have been buried with Christ
by baptism into death,
so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
by the glory of God, so we too
might walk in newness of life.
—Romans 6.4
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net