WHERE IS YOUR ANCHOR
Hebrews 6:18-19
we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to hold firmly to the hope set before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and reliable and one which enters within the veil,
It was almost impossible to get any sleep that night. The sound of 16ft waves pounding the shore and the seawall kept me worried about what might be left to the lodge, boats and equipment in the morning. The constant beating of the waves tore at the foundation of the building, doing its best to pull it away from the place where it was planted.
We had the pilot fly the float plane to a safer place before the storm hit and the boats were tied off securely so they wouldn't be torn away and sunk.
The storms of the Alaskan shoreline are like none I have ever seen or experienced, and that night they were reminding me of the storm we were facing as a family. We were on Kodiak island and back home, in Michigan, my dad was fighting a losing battle with cancer and we wanted to be wifh him. We were quickly running out of funds and the bills were piling up. Besides all this the lodge that I was managing was talking about not opening the next spring. The storms kept hitting harder and harder by the day.
My foundation was being tested by the storms of life and I wondered how long I could last. I felt like a ship at sea being tossed back and forth by the waves and hoping that my anchor held so I didn't get beaten against the rocks of despair.
When the storms of life come upon us (and they certainly will) it would be easy to be destroyed against the rocks, or allow our foundation to be undermined from beneath us.
It reminds me of the old hymn, ON CHRIST THE SOLID ROCK I STAND
My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand,
all other ground is sinking sand.
When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace;
in every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, his covenant, his blood
support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay...
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand,
all other ground is sinking sand.
Where is your hope in the storms you are facing today? Or maybe today the seas and winds of your life are calm... but there is always a storm on the horizon... They always come.
Christ is the anchor that will hold you fast to the solid rock. Without Him our lives would be dashed against the rocks of a hard life.
If you already have Jesus, use Him as your anchor. Don't allow life to beat you against the rocks. Allow Him to hold you fast. Read the words of the song again and take them to heart.
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand,
all other ground is sinking sand.
If you don't have Jesus, there is no way to get through life without being beaten against the rocks of despair and pulled under the seas by the storms of life. I challenge you to run to Him, who is the anchor that we all need to hold fast when the storms come... And they will.
When the disciples were facing a storm that would certainly sink their boat they cried out to Jesus. In Luke 8:25, He answered them.
He calmed the storm and then asked, "Where is your faith?..." (Luke 8:25)
Where is your faith today? Set your anchor on the solid rock in Jesus.
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