There is great comfort and an urgent calling attached to being baptized. It's clear that God's gifts of life, love, and salvation are mediated in a miraculous way through baptism. We receive those gifts through faith - a work of the Holy Spirit who is also given us in baptism. Behind all those promises, furthermore, is a calling to live it out. Live as though you are redeemed. Baptism isn't something that happened years or ever days or moments ago. Baptism is the entry point into the reign and rule of Jesus. We most fully express that truth in daily lives of faithfulness, obedience, repentance and faith. What a precious gift that is indeed!
