God frequently uses water to mark significant events in redemptive history. The Spirit hovering over the waters at creation, the flood, the parting of the Red Sea, and the crossing of the Jordan River are all, in some sense, shadows of the greater reality we have in baptism. Baptism is the practice in which we proclaim that God brings order out of chaos, destroys the enemy of sin, and births new people into His family, and that He will be present with us forever.
