It’s pretty costly to make a boat of any size. Whatever size, they all need a solid anchor to guard against drift that usually leads to shipwreck. Yes, the rudder and keel are vital, but those are both integral to the ship whereas the anchor’s role is to secure the vessel to something independently stronger, the mass of the sea bed. Lying off the many coasts around the world are sunken shipwrecks, many being preventable if there had but been a secure anchor in a storm.
Most of us prefer beginnings to endings – the starting of a new chapter, the first day of your holiday or the birth of a child. And yet, we all know these things will end because our experience of life is linear. Scientists suggest that the world began with the ‘big bang’ and many fear that it will end with a big bang either from an asteroid or a nuclear one of our own making. The world will not end because of over population, disease, wars or even global warming. These may well be accompanying signs as you can read in the book that is all about beginnings and endings, the Bible which is God’s Word to us.
