The Name Buried in the Water | Cozy Afternoon Walk: Romans (S1), Ep.17

Cozy Afternoon Walk: A Daily Devotional · Aug 11, 2026 · 4m

Welcome to Cozy Afternoon Walk — a short pause in your day to sit with Scripture, one verse at a time.

Today's passage: Romans 6:3-4

"We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life." (NIV)

Baptism can look like a quick ritual — water on the head, and then you come back up. But Paul says something bigger happened in that moment: someone inside you was actually buried. Not symbolically — joined to Christ's death and Christ's life for real. The trouble is, we often…