THE ANCHOR, THE FOUNDATION, THE ROCK

Psalms 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

We live in a generation where many are ‘forsaken’ by their mother and/or father. People are forsaken because their conception was due to the heat of a thoughtless moment of passion; to a marriage built on the shaky foundation of human emotion; to a lack of commitment to make this marriage work. People are also forsaken due to attention to the cares of life, to parents who devote more time to their career or financial advancement than to their children. They are also forsaken due to sickness, death, accidents, religious bigotry and persecution.

It is a sad and lonely thing to grow up in the world with the knowledge that those who are called parents, those who are meant to be our trainers and mentors, do not have enough virtue to keep the roof of their family together. That they do not have enough roots in their own lives to keep the foundation of our life strong and sound. This fosters in our life a cynical negative precedent about love, sexual relationships, marriage, as well as a shaky sense of family. Where do we then turn to? Where do we find our security and emotional stability?

We can rest assured. The physical roots of our life may be as shaky as a reed in a stormy wind; the bedrock of our existence may be like the rolling sand of a desert storm; the foundation of our house may resemble mud washed away by a furious river; there is tree that hold its ground stronger than the mighty oak. There is rock surer than any bedrock on which you can build your house. When life offers no one on whom to rest our weary, discouraged and forsaken soul, we can come to Jesus, the sure Foundation (Luke 6:48), the infallible Anchor of the soul (Hebrews 6:18-20), and find refuge from the beatings of the stormy weather. In Him we can find the place where our heart can rest at peace, anchored in the safe harbor of His love.

Luke 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Hebrews 6:18-20 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (19) Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; (20) Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.