Anchor Misplacement

This last Sunday at church, Todd taught about how we can only put our trust, our anchor, in Christ. Everything else will fail, fade, go crashing down, or disappoint us. Especially lately with our economy, people are learning that their anchor has been placed in our government and even that was a misplacement of our trust. Our anchor can only be put in Christ.

"We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus, who went before us, has entered on our behalf"
- Hebrews 6:19-20

Since Sunday, many of us have beem mulling over this and considering what types of things we have put our anchor in that we shouldn't have.

I was reminded of this again as I was reading my new book. Keith Phillips, President of World Impact, wrote a book called Out of Ashes, describing the events of the LA riots and how the church was able to step up and use this as an opportunity to share Christ's love. The following is a description of the hopelessness of the events:

"The 1992 riots on the street of Los Angeles were the worst domestic disturbance in America since the Civil War. Mobs looted and burned 10,000 buildings without impediment from the police. Fires soared hundreds of feet into the air. Fifty-eight people died; 2383 were injured. Over $1 billion in property was damaged; $500 million in wages were lost and 3700 businesses were destroyed.

As I watched the destruction all around, despair overwhelmed me. I had an empty powerless feeling in my stomach. An angry mob ran down Vermont Avenue, where our office is located, breaking into countless buildings, looting and torching as they went. There was no authority to phone - we could do nothing to stop the violence destroying our community.

People who had put their security in anything, or anyone, other than the Almighty God discovered abruptly that their trust had been misplaced"

No one ever thinks our city will be destroyed, or that our government will fail us, or that a relationship will end, or that our money will run out, or that we may not have food on the table. Our anchor is often put in even the smallest things that give us the assurity of having life. Even that is all unpredictable and we can only put our trust in our salvation.

"For in this hope, we were saved." - Romans 8:24