Christian Faith is Trusting

Meditations on Seeking the Life in Christ

November 12, 2020

Christian Faith is Trusting

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.

Hebrews 6:18b-19

Hebrews tells us that Christian hope is like an anchor. This is the only place in early Christian writings where an anchor is used to express this idea. Even so, the anchor has become one of the most widely used symbols of the Christian faith.

The hope the writer refers to is grounded on two central truths of the Christian faith. The first is that we can have great confidence because God bound himself with an oath. (verse 17) Secondly, it leads us into God’s inner sanctuary where Jesus has already gone for us. (verses 19-20) It is Jesus who has hold of our anchor.

These twin truths lead me to two observations. First, Jesus didn’t promise us our lives would be free of difficulties, trials and tribulations. The provision of an anchor implies there will be. The promise of God is that Jesus has hold of the anchor, and we will be safe. Secondly, Christian faith is trusting God, and continuing to trust God in the midst of the storms of life. We trust God’s promises, and we trust the one who is holding our anchor!

My Takeaway: We are taught to walk by faith, not sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7) That doesn’t mean we ignore what we see. It means we don’t let what we see out weigh what we know to be true: Jesus is our anchor!

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

 

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