Listen up, little ones
Listen for the words God and anchor.
Reading
Hebrews 6:13–20—An Anchored Soul
Optional Reading
Acts 27:13–44
Keys for kids
- Boats need anchors to not be tossed by the wind and waves.
- Christians need anchors, too.
- Jesus is the anchor we Christians need.
Questions
- What is an anchor for?
- Why do Christians need a spiritual anchor?
- What is the anchor for our souls?
Notes
(See Saturday for authors.)
Have you ever been in a boat? A big boat or even a ship? Most boats, though maybe not a small rowboat, have an anchor. The anchor provides stability for the boat by being embedded into the lakebed or seabed. You would use an anchor to keep the boat from drifting in heavy winds or currents.
We need an anchor for our Christian life. It is easy to be tossed to and fro by the storms of life. We need a spiritual anchor.
Already the author of Hebrews has cautioned his hearers against the danger of drifting away (Heb 2:1). Here he invites them, and us, to use the best anchor we can have for our souls—hoping in the trustworthy and triune God.
Gooding states it this way. What a hope Christians have! They have cast their anchor not in their fluctuating moods or feelings, or in their varying circumstances, or in anything else in this changing world. Christ himself as their precursor has taken their anchor right through into heaven itself and embedded it in the immovable ground of the presence and throne and character of God.
Is your soul anchored in the work of Jesus? Then you will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit (Eph 4:14).
Swedish Method questions
Praise
Psalm 107d, 111a
Prayer
- Ask God to help you stay anchored in Jesus.
- Pray for the hearing of God’s word preached this Lord's Day.
- Pray for a member of our church, for your family, and for a non-Christian friend/family member.