Awesome, Awesome Anchor

Lam.3:21-24

Yet this I call to mind

and therefore I have hope;

22 Because of the Lord’s great love 

we are not consumed,

for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;

great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, 

“The Lord is my portion;

therefore I will wait for him.”

With renewed joy our eyes feast on the skies where this morning

the smoke haze has dissipated and we can see clouds!

Oh, the things we take for granted!

Lord, pray we never breeze over Thy bounty of blessings

that anchor the soul!

It crowns the cross of creature care with vision’s from above

It transforms Sense of Duty with the beauty of true love

It fuels faith and kindles prayer and makes our joy complete

It keeps eyes fixed upon a prize beyond time’s one-way street

It fits us with the armor that equips us for the fight

Into the darkest hour gleams its everlasting Light

From fear it gathers courage as it draws us from despair

To comforts us and cheers us in our trek from here to There

It conquers greed and fulfills need and helps love suffer long

It leads in paths of righteousness and feeds souls with its song

It awes us as we realize the cost God sacrificed

To keep us in His perfect peace; it is our hope, through Christ

© 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.

19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. 

It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, 

20where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. 

He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.

 1 Peter 1:3 ~ 

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

 According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again 

to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Psalm 43:5

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? 

and why art thou disquieted within me?

 hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, 

who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 39:7

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You.

Psalm 62:5

Rest in God alone, O my soul, for my hope comes from Him.

On Christ, The Solid Rock I Stand