Gal. 4:4-7

Galatians 4:4-7 reads "God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were Under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children. And because you are childern, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!" So you are no longer a slave, but a child, and if a child then and heir, through God."
(See also Romans: 8:14)

The Spirit exists in OUR HEARTS crying: ABBA! Through Baptism we are made new, we are transformed into a neophyte, a new creation. Through this sacrament God reclaims us as his own, saving us from the slavery of sin and the world. He reclaims us through adoption that Christ claimed for us on the cross! His blood was the price paid so that you and I may inherit the kingdom of heaven. And all we have to do to accept this inheritance is to accept Him and to live love.

How often do we turn our backs on our Father and choose the slavery of the world? How often do we chain ourselves to people and possesions? Daily we CHOOSE slavery!

Baptism is the sacrament through which God calls us into the New Covenant with Him. Much more personal than the Old Covenant we read about in the Old Testament, this New Covenant is in Christ, built on love. We were created by God and for Him. There is part of us that can only be whole in GOD! There is part of our hearts that cries our for God! In Baptism we receive the fullness of grace to hear and receive that call that God has for all His created ones.

The world constantly claims to be able to fill this empty place in us through material goods, drugs, alcohol, abuse of human sexuality, and broken, imperfect and fragile human relationships. The world will never be able to complete us, another person will never be able to complete us. There is a God shaped hole is our hearts.

God transforms WHAT we are into WHO he is! (Sword of the Spirit, Mark Hart and Christoper Cuddy)

Once we take a moment to step back from ourselves and take in this concept, life cannot be the same. Once aware, the hole only becomes more evident and the cry louder. We must fall at the feet of the One who bleed for us.