Waiting to baptize a child until the child understands baptism is like waiting to feed a child until the child understands food, only worse.
Baptism is not simple water only, but water comprehended in God's command and connected with His word, so that it offers more than significance (yet signifies things of extreme import).
Holy Baptism delivers substance, namely, the merits of Christ's atoning sacrifice and resurrection for the sin of all flesh, so that those who are baptized are also joined to Christ. This is no more a thing to held up for prior understanding than are being created and being born in the first place.
Baptism is a constant washing, accompanied by constant teaching, discipline, and confession throughout a life of labor peppered with assaults of every kind, including the assaults of those who would make salvation dependent upon yourself, your reason, your feelings, and your understanding.
You are a creature under the hand of a Creator Who works according to His own Word and ways. Nothing can change that.
Remain within the waters in which He placed you, for they are life-giving waters of salvation.
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