The Anchor of My Soul
(He 6:13-20)
God is the God of covenant(Ps 105:8).
He does not break His covenant(Ps 89:34), and
He pays back to those who believe in His covenant with eternal life(1Jn 2:25).
Despite the fact that people disappoint each other,
They continue to believe and trust in social contracts.
Faith, however, is having the anchor of my soul in the covenant of God, and
The life of this faith is living by the faith that rises to hope in entering the new heaven and the new earth.
The ancestor of mankind was deceived by the serpent and
Broke the command regarding the forbidden fruit, and
He was banished from the Garden.
Thus, men's relationship with God became broken and
They became lost(Ge 3:4-6, Ge 3:24).
The Bible is the record of the men of faith who had
The confidence in what they hoped for by God's covenant(He 11:1):
From Noah who built an ark and was saved from the flood(Ge 6:18)
To Abraham who left his country and received Canaan as inheritance(Ge 12:1-2, Ge 15:7), and
Gave his only son and received the promise of numerous descendants(Ge 22:12, Ge 22:16).
His descendants, the Israelites, were delivered from
Their slavery of 400 years in Egypt because
God remembered His covenant with Abraham(Ex 2:24).
The sanctuary was where
The book of the covenant and the stone tablets of the covenant were(Ex 24:7; He 9:4).
It reminded them of God's covenant of giving Canaan as their inheritance(Ge 15:7; Ps 105:11).
However, all but the men of faith, Joshua and Caleb,
Fell in the desert and died for
They did not believe in the covenant of God(Nu 14:16-38).
When the Israelites entered the Promised Land,
They put the ark of covenant before them and the Jordan parted(Jos 3:11-13) for
God does not change the covenant He commanded for a thousand generations(Ps 105:8-10).
Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days(Jn 2:19-20). because
Through the death and resurrection of the temple of His body,
He would lead not those of flesh and blood but those who believe(Jn 1:12, Jn 3:16),
To not the land of Canaan but to the new heaven and the new earth(Jn 21:1).
The promise He made was about His death and His resurrection(Mt 16:21), and
His return and taking back those who believe Him(Mt 16:27; Jn 14:2-3).
As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished(Jn 19:30), declaring that He:
1. Believed in the Father who promised Him resurrection, and laid down His life(Jn 10:17-18);
2. Condemned the devil who caused men to doubt the Father's word(Ge 3:4-6; 1Jn 3:8); and
3. Redeemed the sins of men and sprinkled the blood of the covenant(Mt 26:28).
His resurrection testified the fulfillment of His promise and
His ascension to the throne the mediator of better promises(He 8:6).
The promised Spirit who came
To the soul that has the blood of Jesus(Lk 24:49)
Lets him anchor his soul in the promise of Jesus and in His body the church.
And He lets him believe in the return of Christ to
Take him to the Father's house.
Therefore, the man of faith does not shrink back
From hardship, chains, poverty, isolation, danger, sword or even torture(He 11:35-38) and
Patiently waits with the hope of things unseen(Rm 8:23-25) -
To receive a better resurrection and enter the promised eternal rest(He 4:1).
O Lord,
Please give us all
This hope that never wavers even in the most terrible storms!
Let us drop our anchor on the faith that rises to the hope of
Being taken up to the Father's house when You return and
Finally enter through the veil where You are! Amen.
