Who are you? Where do you fit in? In Lutheran circles many people are related and it doesn’t take long to make some sort of connection.
When a person is baptised, he or she is given a new identity by God as one of His children. Jesus said that baptism is a new beginning. Its being born again as a child of God, covered by the death and resurrection of Jesus. This morning little Matilda will begin life as a child of God.
It is also a good opportunity to reflect on our own baptism and what it means to belong to God and have Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. St Paul said: all of us who were baptised were baptised into the death of Christ Jesus and therefore buried with Him, so that as He was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we also will be raised to new life.
How good is that!