If you ask me to share about my baptism, this is what I would share...

It was out of curiosity that I went to check out what Baptism was all about and why I should go through it. So I started off surfing the net for some clues. One of the more informative website that I found out was from this:

http://www.bebaptized.org/

It tries to provide answers and gives a lot of quotes from the Bible on why a believer should be baptised. I was quite convinced by it. But of course, I didn't just rely on one internet site, I wanted to hear from other sources. So I signed up for the baptism course without committing to go for the baptism eventually.

As I went through the course, I became very convinced that it was what I ought to do in fact. However, there were three main things that made me hesitate in going for it: my parents' consents; the selling and buying of the flats at that point of time; and my decision whether I should stay in Singapore or go back to HK.

My parents thought that the selling and buying of the flats and the decision to stay or leave Singapore took far more priorities and I should be focusing on these issues. Of course they didn't know that I was thinking about the baptism at that time and didn't know that I've put that as my priority and focus at that moment. That's also why it was hard to bring up the baptism topic to them.

After the baptism, I came to realise, or have been affirmed that I should always put my relationship with God as my priority. Once this is clear in my mind and I act upon it accordingly, things will start to fall into place. This was the case with my parents' understanding of my faith. In fact, throught this baptism, they have also accepted what I believe in; the selling and buying of the flats are going on with a clear direction; I've also had a peaceful mind and heart to decide which direction to go for the future. So effectively, all the three things that held me captive in my stagnant stage before baptism were being dispersed.

Until last week, I thought the main difference before and after my baptism was that baptism has brought me to another stage in my relationship with God. As I started to read the books that I received from the baptism, I made more effort to understand what I was reading. My attitude when I was reading has changed. However, by this week, I realise that the true difference before and after Baptism is that I have been convicnced that I should always put God as the priority. Only then will I have the capacity to think how to live.

Just one short testimony to share: I think I passed my motorbike test because I've put God as my priority also. I used to choose going for the practice lessons over going to church service. This led me eventually to backslide and stopped going to church. But when I have been told that this was wrong and I repriortised, I passed. I don't think I passed the test because I rode well that day. I rode better on other test days but I failed.

Anna