Ron Hutchcraft Ministries - Anchored In Stormy Times - #8293

Monday, June 15, 2009

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I was talking to our amazingly perceptive eight-year-old grandson about his recent bout with a very painful condition. It turned out to be something simple to correct, but it wasn’t fun at the time. His teacher called and told our daughter, “You need to come and pick him up right away. He’s in excruciating pain.” Well, our daughter took him to the doctor, where he had to endure the pain for a little longer while they sat in the waiting room. Here’s how he described his experience to me: “You know, it’s like a boat that’s tied to an anchor. A big storm comes and really blows you around. I felt like my anchor was going to break. But Jesus is my anchor, and that anchor never breaks.” Man, in stormy times like these, isn’t that what we need?

I’m Ron Hutchcraft, and for a world like ours, we need an anchor that’s recession-proof, depression-proof, terror-proof, death-proof, which for me eliminates every possible anchor but one. It’s that anchor relationship the Bible describes this way: “Nothing can ever separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:39 ).

This love relationship with Jesus is actually called an anchor when God says, “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (Hebrews 6:19 ). That unloseable love was proven beyond any doubt when Jesus hung on a cross, dying to pay for the sin that has cut us off from that love. When you pin all your hopes on Jesus, you get, as my grandson says, the anchor that never breaks.

You might be ready. I hope you’ll go to our website and find information there on how to get started with Jesus. It’s ALifeThatMatters.org.

This radio program references: Romans 8:39 ; Hebrews 6:19