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1 Peter 3:21 – Prayer is Like Baptism
Prayer is a lot like baptism, and every other work God has commanded. Think about how amazing prayer is. Our thoughts transcend the ceiling, sky, moon, the end of our galaxy and even past the end of the universe, where no man can go. God is on the other end of everything and the beginning of what physically is nothing. Our prayers pass through the heavens as surely as Jesus did (Heb.4:14). And yet there is no power in us or our prayers to transcend. All the power belongs to God who hears. Amazingly God wants to hear. He is transcendent, yet imminent. Our words have no power to travel through space. Baptism is like that. The power is not in the prayer or the act, but in the God who commands it. Saying baptism cannot save because it is a work is saying prayer cannot save because it too is a work. Baptism has no power, but it works, it saves, for the same reason prayer works and saves – because God is the power and says so (Acts 8:22; 1 Peter 3:21).
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