"What Is Your Anchor?" - Camryn Carstensen

I don’t know about many of you, but I love summer. I love the heat. I especially love the beach, pools, any sort of water where you can just float and relax. Growing up I never was a strong swimmer. However, it never discouraged me from getting in the water because I just simply relied on my floaty. I remember growing up and being at a beach in Mexico and dying to go in the ocean. My father said I could go, but I had to comply with one request: find an anchor and not go past it. Anything past this boat (which we made the anchor) could be dangerous. The tide could pull me much farther than I wanted to go if not careful.

“We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure.” - Hebrews 6:19

Jesus is our Anchor, in every storm through every battle.

Life gets busy, and messy. If we are not anchored to Christ, sometimes the tides of life and culture can have us drifting much further than we want to be. “We must pay careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). Pulled into directions far from Christ.

Have you ever tried to swim against a current? It is hard, at least for me, especially when I have drifted far from the anchor. Swimming, like many other things, requires endurance and steadfastness to continue. Now imagine swimming tiredly and weak against a current. There is no way that you overpower that water. I wish you did, and some may, but the reality for many is it is much harder to swim back after we have been far out for so long.

This my friends is what can happen in a busy season if we are not identifying our buoy or near our anchor. It is important in every season to take inventory of where we are and locate our anchor.

Have you checked your markers? Are you operating securely from your anchor or have you drifted off?