I don’t know what kind of news you have heard today over the radio or read in the papers or seen on TV. Maybe you heard again about earthquakes, accidents on the road, cyclones, floods, hijackings, train accidents, corrupt governments , and so on. One catastrophe has not finished before we are hearing of another one.

Not long ago I saw printed on a paper shopping bag,”Global Village”. And that’s what we are. Things are happening anywhere in the global village and we not only hear about them, but we can see them happening at the same time. Our modern news technology is fantastc.

In times like these when one catastrophic thing is chasing another, we need something to hold on to. One of the best- known news reporters in our country has expressed our situation so vividly in his autobiography he wrote some time ago. I am quoting from page 295, “Sometimes I felt a floated like flotsam on the reeling sea with no one to keep me grounded.” I think that is actually true of the bulk of humanity.

“In times like these you need an anchor,” says the songwriter in an old English church hymn we used to sing long ago. Do you remember the hymn?

We do read about THE ANCHOR in the Bible , the word of God. It says in Hebrews 6,17-20 ,” God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind. So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangable because it is impossible for God to lie. Therefore, we who have fled to him for refuge can have great confidence as we hold to the hope that lies before us. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. Jesus has already gone in there before us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order if Melchizedek.”

This is the great encouragement and anchor that believers in the Lord Jesus Christ have. He went before us into Heaven into the presence of God. We cannot see him, but He is our HOPE and the ANCHOR for our souls. In the storms of life He is keeping us safe and taking us to our eternal destination.

DO you have this hope today as an ANCHOR for your soul?

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