What Comfort My Baptism Brings

 1 What comfort my baptism brings.

O my soul finds a refuge,

From the doubts that the devil will most surely send;

Given grace in the washing and the Word.

2 Surely from when I was conceived,

Sin had severed communion.

Fully dead in my sin I was God's enemy.

Who could save me from this body of death?

3 Left to my own desires I'm lost.

I can not turn and choose good.

For my nature will always choose to run from God.

Praise the Lord salvation's outside of me!

4 Baptized into the death of Christ,

Sin no longer controls me.

Through the work of the Spirit also raised with Christ,

Given freedom to follow God's command.

5 Baptism now appeals to God.

For an unburdened conscience.

Just as Noah was raised through water in the ark,

I am lifted through water out of death.

6 Thankful to have the gift so free,

Of forgiveness and Spirit.

Through the power of the washing I have new desires.

Remind me of this living truth.