I’m getting up there in years (Whoopee!). I’ve stopped reading obituaries; too many familiar faces.

It has been 48 years since I “dropped anchor” in Jesus Christ, and by an act of simple faith, placed my life in His hands.

On that momentous night, the Gospel came crashing through my contrived defenses and outright rebellion. Nothing would be the same again.

Before my conversion, I was a nomad wandering from pleasure to pleasure without a thought to my spiritual destiny.

I was without a safe anchorage for my soul, tossed around like a cork on an angry sea.

I had no idea what I was missing … that was then.

My Anchor Holds Fast

Today, I am reaping the harvest of that life-altering decision made almost five decades ago.

I’m STILL anchored securely in Jesus, held fast by the very Word and power of the Godhead, as written in Romans 8:34-36:

“Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?”

I say “STILL anchored” because in those 48 years since conversion, I’ve blown it countless times.

And every time I came to God in confession, I secretly harbored the suspicion that this might be the time when God finally says, “Enough, I’m getting fed up with you, Collier!”

Wrong.

It’s All About God, Not Me

That blasphemous suspicion was completely and wrongly focused upon ME, my deeds or misdeeds, completely ignoring the nature and purposes of God.

His salvation is based 100% on Jesus Christ and His redemptive work on the cross, not on my flaky ways.

Salvation was accomplished entirely within the Trinitarian Godhead. It’s a matter of historical record, as noted in Romans 5:6, “For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.”

Read these mighty declarations from the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:3-7: 

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, with which He favored us in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our wrongdoings, according to the riches of His grace.”

Note all the “He,” “Him” and “His” mentions in the above passage.

What holds the anchor of my salvation fast is its rest in God and not in me. It looks to God for every single step in the process of salvation, as expressed in, what someone described, as the “Golden Chain of Salvation” in Romans 8:29-31:

“For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?”

The above unbreakable chain to glory is carried out 100% by God in the salvation of every single soul who comes to Him in faith with empty hands and an open heart.

No “deals” here, no quid-pro-quo’s, it’s all grace, as primised in Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Our ‘Job’

So, what is our job considering such a generous God-centered salvation? We get to believe it and receive it. Period.

No use trying to add to it by our good deeds, meritorious acts, or religious devotion. Nada.

How About You?

 Most of us save, scrape and store away for our future material “security,” and stop there. Someone has said “he is a fool whose plans end at the grave.”

But what about your soul, the real “you,” which will live on past your physical death?

So, what is your precious soul anchored to? Empty religion or the one, only, exclusive Rock, Jesus?

Listen to Luke 6:47-48:

“Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when there was a flood, the river burst against that house and yet it could not shake it, because it had been well built.”