Heaven’s Anchor

Hope. There’s a word we throw around quite easily, whether it’s a casual ‘fingers crossed’ for a specific birthday gift, or the earnest belief of triumph despite tragedy. In my musing meanderings this week, I decided I needed to know what it really meant.

As I reflected on these four heart-buoying letters, my initial thoughts were that it simply conveyed confidence about future expectations. My mind’s eye conjured images skyward, ethereal and misty. When I went to the scriptures, however, I found a different picture in Hebrews:  

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
— Hebrews 6:19,20 ESV

A steadfast anchor. For our souls. In the Holy of Holies.

Instead of tethering us to the bedrock beneath the wind-ravaged ocean, our anchor is secured to none other than Christ Himself with the nails that pierced His hands. He does so much more than merely keep us from being tossed about on the waves: from the Holy of Holies, He draws us forward through the uncertainties of life with an enduring chain wrought from His blood.

This is hope.

Don’t miss the follow-up post “Forerunner“!