We who follow Christ are not perfect in our efforts, but humbled by grace and broken hearted by the undeserved mercy of a holy and omnipotent, yet merciful God, we've come to know with certainty who our anchor and our mooring line are...
Hebrews 6:17-20 (NLT) 17 "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. 18 So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable 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. 19 This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. 20 Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek."
In an unguarded moment, subject to the frailty and weakness of our flesh, we might find ourselves moved against our mooring by the tide of life - though if we're truly anchored, we do not fail to come to rest again in our place of security against the waves. But all around us in a society ungrounded and set adrift in it's own wisdom and desires lies a warning that reminds us daily of how critically important it is - moment by moment, to stay connected and to hold fast to that anchor lest we too are so easily to be found adrift.
The Apostle Paul perfectly described to Timothy the waters in which we currently reside around us...
2 Timothy 3:2-5 (NLT) 2 "For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. 5They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!"
In this life we reside anchored in a sea of hearts teeming with motives, desires and brokenness that even those hearts themselves may not be certain of. And in this very day that Paul described so well, deception, by a wicked design circles us like a shark seeking to devour us.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NLT) 9“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? 10 But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
It's not we that hold the anchor, but by way of our mooring line that the anchor continually holds us firmly in this sea of hearts - this Sea of Deception. See to it continually that your connection to your mooring line is secure, for your anchor is held fast in the rock...
Hebrews 6:17-20 (NLT) 17 "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. 18 So God has given both his promise and his oath. These two things are unchangeable 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. 19 This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary. 20 Jesus has already gone in there for us. He has become our eternal High Priest in the order of Melchizedek."
In an unguarded moment, subject to the frailty and weakness of our flesh, we might find ourselves moved against our mooring by the tide of life - though if we're truly anchored, we do not fail to come to rest again in our place of security against the waves. But all around us in a society ungrounded and set adrift in it's own wisdom and desires lies a warning that reminds us daily of how critically important it is - moment by moment, to stay connected and to hold fast to that anchor lest we too are so easily to be found adrift.
The Apostle Paul perfectly described to Timothy the waters in which we currently reside around us...
2 Timothy 3:2-5 (NLT) 2 "For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. 5They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!"
In this life we reside anchored in a sea of hearts teeming with motives, desires and brokenness that even those hearts themselves may not be certain of. And in this very day that Paul described so well, deception, by a wicked design circles us like a shark seeking to devour us.
Jeremiah 17:9-10 (NLT) 9“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? 10 But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.”
It's not we that hold the anchor, but by way of our mooring line that the anchor continually holds us firmly in this sea of hearts - this Sea of Deception. See to it continually that your connection to your mooring line is secure, for your anchor is held fast in the rock...
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