This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. - Matthew 3:17 When Jesus stepped down into the Jordan River to be baptized by John the Baptist, He stepped into the fullness of God's purpose for His life. Jesus' step into the Jordan waters was symbolic of His perpetual death and resurrection.
Have you ever stopped to think that by the time Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan River that day, they were teeming with the sins of mankind? John the Baptist had baptized countless people in the Jordan, their sins figuratively passing from them into the sea of God's forgiveness, just as the waters of the Jordan River end up in the Dead Sea.
From the shores of spiritual blindness, one might think, How awful! Jesus was wading into sin. Jesus was doing so, however, to fulfill the purpose of God -- redemption from sin. Jesus was exactly where God wanted Him to be, doing precisely what God wanted Him to do.
As Jesus stood in the very place God desired for Him to stand, God opened up the heavens, the Spirit of God descended upon Him, and a voice spoke from heaven saying, This is My Son. This is My seed, My son, who pleases me!
Don't expect God to speak up for you -- or to cause others to see you for who you really are -- until you are willing to step into the place where God has called you to be. When you step into that place where you are supposed to be, you don't have to speak up for yourself, fight for yourself, or demand anything of others. God will speak for you. He'll command whatever forces are involved to yield to you, give to you, honor you, listen to you, obey you.
Don't expect God to open up the heavens and pour out His Spirit of power and truth and wisdom and righteousness into your life unless you are where you are supposed to be. When you step into the place God has destined for you, you won't have to take on your own battles, grope about for the right decisions, or wonder if something is right or wrong. God will give you what you need to have. And you won't have any doubt that it's God Who is providing for you or working in you.
To please the Father ... obey Him. Even if it means wading into someone else's muddy waters.
