Jesus Is the Better Anchor

The in between is hard. God is a God of promises and He is faithful. Yet, we wait to see all of His promises fulfilled. Abraham was given a direct promise of an heir and then waited 25 years into very old age before God kept the promise. Still, the Lord had sworn, so Abraham knew the promise would come true. God promised Israel a redeemer from the family line of Abraham; then Israel waited for hundreds of years, with generations coming and going, before seeing this promise fulfilled when God's Son was born in Bethlehem. While we experience the blessings of Jesus and our salvation, we also wait and trust in unfulfilled promises. In Jesus we have a better promise and while we do experience many of the blessings of grace, we still long for the day when all the promises are complete. Yet, we can go on because we have a sure and steady anchor for our souls in the faithfulness of God and the promises made true in Jesus.