Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - Kansas City, Missouri, United States - "Hope In Christ, Our Anchor" Thursday, 15 January 2015 - Scripture: Hebrews 6:13-20

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - Kansas City, Missouri, United States - "Hope In Christ, Our Anchor" Thursday, 15 January 2015 - Scripture: Hebrews 6:13-20
"Hope In Christ, Our Anchor" by Paul Martin
In 1830 a letter was received by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from missionary John Keightley. He related the story of the conversion of a man who had claimed allegiance to another religion: “I was requested to baptize this [man’s] child. While addressing the parents, before the child was baptized, the father began to tremble, and it was evident he felt the power of God.” The man came for instruction, and “After seeking the Lord with a broken and contrite heart for several months, he has found peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Later a paper shared more of his story: “This man maintained his Christian character unblemished, and was appointed to the office of class-leader in 1838; and in 1839, being a fisherman, he was out at sea one day, and the boat was upset by a gust of wind, and he and another were drowned…he said to his comrades, ‘I am going to glory.’”*
No earthly anchor to grasp; the heavenly was sure. His anchor, his hope was the Rock Christ Jesus![*Charles Marke, Origins of Wesleyan Methodism in Sierra Leone and History of Its Missions, London: Charles H. Kelly, 1913, 39-40.]
Hymn fot today: "The Nachor Holds"

I have journeyed

Through the long, dark night

Out on the open sea

By faith alone

Sight unknown

And yet His eyes were watching me

The anchor holds

Though the ship is battered

The anchor holds

Though the sails are torn

I have fallen on my knees

As I faced the raging seas

The anchor holds

In spite of the storm

I've had visions

I've had dreams

I've even held them in my hand

But I never knew

They would slip right through

Like they were only grains of sand

The anchor holds

Though the ship is battered

The anchor holds

Though the sails are torn

I have fallen on my knees

As I faced the raging seas

The anchor holds

In spite of the storm

I have been young

But I am older now

And there has been beauty

That these eyes have seen

But it was in the night

Through the storms of my life

Oh, that's where God proved

His love to me

The anchor holds

Though the ship is battered

The anchor holds

Though the sails are torn

I have fallen on my knees

As I faced the raging seas

The anchor holds

In spite of the storm

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