January 9: The First Sunday after the Epiphany — The Baptism of Jesus
Just as Jesus became human that we might become divine, he went into the water that it all might be sanctified. Jesus didn’t need a sin washing. But the whole creation needed the Word to become flesh and dwell among us. When we forget scripture screaming to us who God is and what God has done we’re often left even more unfilled because of all the ways that we individually and collectively fail to measure up and just quite can’t seem to save ourselves.
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