Will your anchor hold?

Written by Nana Kwame Owusu-Afriyie.

“If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small" (NLT) Proverbs 24:10

“Trees snap like toothpicks or fly upward, wrenched from the earth. Whole rooftops sail, cars tumble like toys, houses collapse, and a wall of water obliterates the shore and inundates the land. A hurricane cuts and tears, and only solid foundations survive its unbridled fury … For any building, the foundation is critical. It must be deep enough and solid enough to withstand the weight of the building and other stresses. Lives are like buildings, and the quality of each one’s foundation will determine the quality of the whole. Too often inferior materials are used, and when tests come, lives crumble” (NLT Commentary).

Perhaps when we are buffeted with the regular challenges and pains of life, such as the death of a loved one, diseases and ailments, poverty, frustrations and disappointments and the like, we can stand our ground and trust God. But if just in one day and in one breath, you lose all your oxen and donkeys, sheep, camels, workers and servants, and as if these are not enough, your sons and daughters, I wonder if your anchor will hold.

Worse still, the people around you will most likely accuse you of some grievous sin for which you are receiving your punishment and if you do not guide your heart against these naysayers, they will convince you that you are to blame. If you are a little bit superstitious, you might attribute it to some evil entity and on and on all sorts of thoughts will flood your mind.

The last thing that will feature in your mind is to praise the name of the Lord; that will be considered as a non – starter. Amazingly, Job, an object of the aforementioned calamities and even more, mustered rare courage and uttered words of assurance. Scriptures say in all his calamities, ‘Job did not sin by blaming God’ (Job 1:22).

It will be rather presumptuous on our part to dare to think we can easily pass the test of Job. Just imagine how trivial issues like the state of the weather, erratic power cuts, general setbacks in life, etc. can steal our joy. But come to think of it, Job was a man like you and me. Why did Job’s anchor hold in the storms of life? The answer is in Job 1:1: “He was blameless – a man of complete integrity”.

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