Notes of Faith January 14, 2025
Anchored on Hope
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil.
Hebrews 6:19
To keep a ship from drifting, you need an anchor. If it’s heavy enough, its weight will help keep the vessel in place. It may also dig into the sandy bottom, and often it hooks onto a rock on the seabed. In Mark 6:53, the disciples anchored their boat in the Sea of Galilee, and in Acts 27:29 the sailors threw four anchors into the sea and prayed for daylight.
We also have an anchor, but ours flies upward into heaven, behind the symbolic torn veil of the temple, and into the very presence of Jesus Christ. It grips the sure and certain hope that we have in Him: “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul.”
When we’re anchored in eternity, we can weather the storms of time. Whatever happens to us, we know our future. The Lord is already there, and He is preparing a place for us. That makes us sanctified optimists. Today, anchor your personality on the hope Christ offers. Let that stabilize your emotions and sustain your spirits.
When the waves of life threaten to overwhelm us, we need an anchor that will hold up in the strongest storm.
Ray Pritchard
Heb 6:13-20
13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, 14 saying, "I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU." 15 And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. 16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute. 17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. 19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, 20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Being accepted by God means we must have been changed from sinner to forgiven and not for a specific sin but all sin, past, present, and future. We are cleansed by the work of God through Jesus Christ sacrifice, becoming sin on the cross and being punished by God in our place. We are no longer doomed to be separated from God for all eternity but promised the greatest of hope in Jesus for our eternal security in heaven with Him!
Pastor Dale