“I am baptized!”  Martin Luther, the great 16th century figure of the Reformation used to take great comfort from these words.

When it seemed to him that the whole Church had left the precepts of the Gospel, when he was under scrutiny from Church officials as to the truth of his beliefs, when his life was being threatened and when he suffered self-doubt he would boldly proclaim: “I am baptized!”

And those words don’t just belong to the Martin Luther’s of this world. They belong to each and every baptized person. To each of us who have had water poured over us in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit . . . let’s let those words sink in this morning: “I am Baptized!”