Abiding Anchor

 This song has been going round in my head since last week
when my son played a small bit he recorded
as a man in the next room on a job site sang this hymn as he worked...

Against the tides that surge and crash and moan

Unwavering amidst the foaming crest

Steadfast within the gales that wail and groan

Abides the anchor of God’s promises

Unshakeable while wild life’s mistrals seethe

Until it feels like hell its depth unchains

Still resolute, unmovable beneath

The anchor of God’s promises remains

Unyielding as grief wields a numbing blow

And courage crumples in sorrow’s travail

Firm in the roiling spoil of Eden’s woe

God’s perfect promises will never fail

My love, though earth and heavens pass away

And stars fall like green figs from storm-tossed tress

Rock-solid in the tempest's spewing fray

Abides the anchor of God’s promises

© Janet Martin

Heb.6:18-20

 Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie,
we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and steadfast. 
It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 
 where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf.
 He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.…