Anchoring My Faith
In all this you greatly rejoice, though
now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
These have come so that the proven genuineness
of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by
fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1 Peter 1:6-7 (NIV)
In
his book, Six
Hours One Friday, Max
Lucado
tells the story of how he and his boat survived a hurricane. An old sea man
gave Max the advice to take his boat to deep water, drop four anchors off each
corner of the boat, and pray that the anchors held. Max survived that storm,
but he says that he learned an important lesson, all of us need an anchor that
will hold during the storms of life.
That
anchor
is our faith. What have we put
our
faith
in? How important is it to have faith? Where do we find a faith strong enough
to make it through the storms of life? Peter knows how important faith is and
he gives us a great picture of faith, a faith that we can anchor deep with, and
a faith which will hold us during the storms of life.
When
Peter
wrote his letter, things were changing. Peter is writing to a people who are
finding it increasingly difficult to live their faith. The question is not if
we have faith, every one has faith. The atheist has faith that his rational
reasoning has removed the possibility of God. He has faith in his intellectual
ability. Others have faith in their abilities, skills, connections, friends,
family and themselves. Everyone has faith. The question is where is your faith
anchored?
Is
your
anchor of faith a true anchor? Is your faith built upon the truth of scripture.
Is your faith tested?
Only
a faith in Christ is true, tested, and timeless.
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It
is
not a question of if you have a faith. It is not a question of if the storms of
life will come. It is the question, will your anchor of faith, hold through the
storms? The time to anchor your hope and faith to Christ is now, before the
storms show up.
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