Trust and obey, trust and obey for there is no other way. As as I remember this Sunday school song I just wonder how true the Christian concept of hope is not a wishful "I hope so" attitude, but a confident expectation .
In this world, we do not stand on firm ground but are tossed about as as if we were on the sea. Satan incessantly stirs up innumerable storms that would sink our vessel if we did not cast our anchor fast in the deep. Waves arise and threaten us. But as the anchor is cast through the waters into the dark and unseen place and keeps the vessel from being overwhelmed, so must our hope be fixed on the invisible God. But with this difference, the anchor is cast down into the sea with the earth as its bottom; but our hope soars aloft, for in the world it finds no created things on which it can stand. It rests on God alone.
As the anchor joins the vessel with the earth, so the truth of God is a bond that contacts us with Him. Thus when we are united to God, though we must struggle with continual storms, we are still beyond the peril of shipwreck.
Faith in God has been likened to a leap in the dark. In reality, it is leap from the dark into the light of truth.God's word is a spotlight for those yearning to follow God's will. "Your word is a lamp to my feet and alight fro my path" (Psalm 119:105).
Those are comforting words when the storm of life make shipwreck seem imminent. Have a blessed Sunday and the week ahead.
2 comments:
My God! That is some powerful imagery there. Especially, as the anchor meets the earth and it is symbolic of the connection we have with God.
Right on point with that message right there.
Hallelujah!
Thanks for visiting me and your encouragement. In fact have been reading yours too and find it refreshing.
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