Anchor—One That Always Holds

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“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:31).
How simple the plan of salvation! Only believe! Faith in Christ begets hope, “which hope we have as an anchor to the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail.” This anchor never fails in the most tempestuous sea and the most stormy weather.
Says a gentleman: “As we lay off Queenstown harbor, one blustering afternoon, I saw the anchor lowered. I could scarcely believe my eyes that such a small piece of iron could be expected to check the drift of the huge ship amid such a boiling sea, but the implicit confidence of the officers reassured me. They had tested it before. Small as it was, it held the ship amid the fury of the hurricane.”
Faith in Jesus seems to be a little thing, but it has been tested and has never failed. Our boat is tossing on life’s troubled sea, but the chain that binds us to the Eternal is a chain of love, and it is easier, far easier, for heaven and earth to pass away than for one link to fail—every link is a promise of the Everlasting God—and the flukes of the anchor take hold of the “Rifted Rock” within the vail.

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