Briefly watching on fb a water baptism of a very elderly crippled man, my first thought was “Why…?” Then I realized that while his relationship with God was quite different from mine, it didn’t mean that one way was superior and another inferior: they were just different.
One very valuable expression of love – the Jesus type of love – that we can always exercise is to see our every-brother as God sees us AND ACT THAT WAY !! There exist multifarious similarities between ourselves, wanting to enlighten the world and others who also want to share.
So, where the elderly gentleman had all he could do to get his aching body into the baptismal tub, he certainly was exhibiting an astounding degree of faith. Who am I to say his way – though not my way – is wrong? Judging one another’s pure heart of God will bring untold unity.