An Anchor for Your Soul
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.
Hebrews 6:19 (NIV)
Jesus is the anchor for your soul. This wording paints the picture of tying a ship down upon reaching shore. And the implication is that faith in Jesus is the only spiritual connection that you and I can trust that will get us to shore and then firmly fix us there. You can tie your life down and live it securely in Jesus Christ.
This image of the anchor is significant. The writer of Hebrews is not describing Jesus as a foundation, a pedestal, a ladder, a bridge, a pathway, a transport, a tower, a station, a refuge, or a battleax—though all of those descriptors may be true. Jesus is all of those things. But here's what the writer of Hebrews says when he wants to describe the stability of our faith and our spirituality: Jesus is an anchor.
If you talk about stability and firmness and steadfastness, what fixes you in life and holds you stable and keeps you from swaying is Jesus. Jesus is the anchor for your soul.
That means you are never in jeopardy from changing conditions. You are so tied down in Jesus, secure enough in Him, that not one threat brewing on the waters of your life—no matter how fierce—can ever be forceful enough to erase you.
Don't let your conditional experiences change your anchored assurance. Don't let…
the wind blowing,
the water becoming choppy,
the uncertainty of your situation,
the assertion and arrogance of other people's opinions,
trouble and calamity,
running into a brick wall,
or facing a perpetual dead end
…make you forget that your soul has been anchored in Jesus. No matter how unstable the conditions around your life may become, you are perfectly fixed and firm in Jesus, so that when the storms of life are raging, you can say, “I've got peace in my soul.”
You may be tossed, driven, battered, shaken, frustrated, angry, hurt, confused, fearful, uncertain, ambivalent, or disheveled, but if you are anchored in Jesus, you will not be erased. He’s got you.
