Anchor

Sunk. We’ve all been there before, right? Perhaps, you’re even in that place now. You’ve done all you can to try and fight to keep your head above the water, yet with every crashing blow you are growing more languid and loosing hope by the minute. It’s much like an anchored boat in the midst of a merciless storm. Though the anchor was perfectly created to hold the boat in place, it cannot however keep the boat from sinking if the rains fall hard enough and fast enough. Maybe that’s where you find yourself today: worn, beat down, quickly going under. Sunk.

Yet perhaps, this is the safest place we can find ourselves. Before, we were on the water fighting, clinging to the dock with white knuckled grips, weathering one storm after another until finally we no longer bear the strength to fight the tempest. It’s in that moment we are taken under, and for the first time, we find ourselves face to face with- The Anchor.

It’s then we realize our fight was not in vain and was never really ours in the first place. For while we were on the surface breathlessly battling the gusts and torrents, The Anchor remained: secure- steadfast- never fretting for an instant or feeling overcome by the storms that have ultimately sunk us.

This is the place of surrender. This is the place of complete trust. This is the place of pure rest.

In laying down our own feeble efforts we can rest unmoved with the One who was relentlessly grasping onto us all along: Jesus. He is the unmovable Anchor that consistently holds us fast in God’s love. While our current situation of the pandemic, social distancing, and unemployment is becoming harder to fight each day, may I encourage you to just let go and surrender in the submergence?

Would you dare to believe with me that if this trial is pulling us closer to the Anchor of our souls that it cannot be counted as loss? No matter the circumstance, Jesus is holding us fast and remains unmoved.  He’s not letting go. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.

These words from Matt Boswell sum it up perfectly for me. I pray you would also find comfort in them as well:

Christ the sure and steady Anchor,

In the fury of the storm;

When the winds of doubt blow through me,

And my sails have all been torn.

In the suffering, in the sorrow,

When my sinking hopes are few;

I will hold fast to the Anchor,

It shall never be removed.

-Christ the Sure and Steady Anchor (Matt Boswell)

Abide in Him Always,

Ashley