Entering A New Life

Jesus was baptized, not because he needed to repent, but because his is the way of life we were to follow. We go through the ritual of baptism to show that our old life is dead and we enter into Jesus’ life. Even so, Jesus’ life of quiet submission, working for his keep with his hands, of anonymity, of caring for his family first—all that is dead and he never returns to it. Not that such a life is evil, but it was not where the Father wanted him. Baptism allowed him to enter the kingdom coming instead of remaining in the kingdom passed.