Living Water

One thing I learned was about ritual cleansing using the Mikveh. If you come in contact with the dead or even visit a cemetery you are unclean. The process for cleaning involves going to one of these baths. You take stairs into the bath and then let the clean water in. I think you immerse yourself 7 times then you release the “dirty” water and exit by a different set of stairs. It’s supposed to take you from thinking about death to life. Baptism sort of builds on this idea in an eternal way!

Baptism into being all in with Jesus and setting Him as Lord and Savior cleanses is from sin and delivers us from death once and for all mirrors the Mikveh.

Also the Mikveh provides a context for living water. Water that washes away our sin and consecrates us.

What a great picture!