In the name of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
It
is quite fitting that we have a Baptism today, as it partners perfectly with
this morning’s reading from Colossians. Scholars tell us that verses 15-20,
which are contained in the first paragraph of the reading in the bulletin, are
an ancient hymn of the early Church. These verses would have been familiar to
first generation Christians and is older than the book of Colossians itself.
This song of the earliest Church was likely used at Baptisms that took place
nearly 2,000 years ago in what is modern-day Turkey. So today, as we prepare to
baptize Jacob Grey Storey into the Body of Christ, we are united to Christians
throughout time and space as we consider this hymn about Christ’s Lordship.
