How is an anchor useful?
Oh, for boating, you say, and you’re right. Absolutely.
How else, though? What’s the good in an anchor?
It depends on the meaning of anchor we use.
Merriam-Webster gives numerous definitions for anchor, the first of which is a device with flukes that is attached to a boat or ship. It’s the meaning we first think of. However, today, let’s look at a different meaning.
An anchor can be a fixed object to which we attach ourselves in time of potential peril.
Like climbing a mountain.
Or in a volatile financial market.
Or in an emotionally fraught season.
We find something that is immovable, and we benchmark ourselves to it, tie our rope tightly, or maintain a refuge for our quick retreat.
We find safety in our anchor.
Philippians 2:16 reveals our spiritual anchor:
“Holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.”
The Bible is our anchor of truth against the tenets of man that swing from conservative to liberal and back again. It’s the fixed object to which we can attach ourselves when the world’s self-important and self-indulgent lifestyle tries to pull us away from our moral center.
Christ is our firm foundation, and in him, we’ll never be moved.
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