In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Circumcision and baptism sound like religious terms that many of us don’t understand the reasoning behind.
Circumcision and baptism symbolize our choice to die to our selfish ways, cutting ourselves off from our old life and being reborn into a new life in Jesus.
That new life in Jesus frees us from the guilt and shame of our past mistakes.
Jesus dying and being raised back to life gave us the gift of doing the same spiritually. We can die to our old selfish ways and be reborn into the new life that he gives us.
It is a spiritual circumcision, its cutting ourselves off from who we use to be and finding new life in Jesus.
Baptism is a public declaration, a symbolization of that new life, of being made new, being reborn into the life Jesus paid for and originally interned for us to have. A right relationship with him.
One where we can laugh and talk with God, where we can feel free from our past and share that same freedom with others.
Don’t shy away from what you don’t understand or think is just tradition or old ways. Talk with God, ask him what it means and let him show you his true intent.