Romans 6:3 "Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized in to his death?" 

When we bring our children to baptism, or when anyone is baptized, it is such a joyful occasion! They are being marked as God's children, rescued from the hands of the evil one, brought into the family and the kingdom of God! It is an astounding sacrament, without which we could not be assured of our salvation.

With that joy, though, comes this somewhat sobering thought expressed by Paul. When we are baptized, we are brought into Christ's life, but also into His death. We are saying, for ourselves or our children, that we choose to die to everything, to put everything at God's disposal, to accept the suffering, pain, and death that will come our way in order to be with Him in eternity. We are asking to be treated no better than Jesus was.

That can seem like something we would want to avoid - Christ's death was horrible and torturous! But we want to die with Him because only He can bring us to new life, free from all our sins, and ready to live in eternity with Him. And Christ bears most of the burden, even in our suffering and death.

Everyone will die, the baptized and the unbaptized alike. When we get baptized, however, we recognize this inevitability with joy, because we are merging our lives and our deaths with Christ's, and therefore becoming heirs to the victory He won for us.