When our God and Father swore an oath to save us from our sins, He was not satisfied to leave that oath floating up in the ether. He sealed our salvation on earth in His Son’s blood two thousand years ago. And that same salvation is sealed to us in baptism. The promise of God is not far from us. He brings that promise down like the flood waters in Noah’s day, like the Spirit at Pentecost. He brings that promised down right upon our heads in these waters of baptism. In them Christ says, “Behold, I am with you always.”