It has been said that the central anchor of the Titanic weighed over 15 tons.  That’s nearly 14,000 lbs to be exact.  This, however, is miniscule when compared to the ship’s weight – some 46,000 tons!  That’s almost 43 Million pounds!  Yet this anchor was sufficient to hold the world’s largest ocean-liner in a single spot amidst crashing waves.   That’s unbelievable.

That ocean-liner, however, pales in comparison to our great God.  And that anchor pales in comparison to the Word of God.   These two are synonymous and all-sufficient.  When I think about what the Church does, make disciples, it bewilders me to think how we are to do this if we are not controlled, framed, and anchored by the Word of God alone.  It seems that everything else is so much more “trendy” to today’s college student.  Yet if this isn’t anchoring everything we do, how can anything else compare?  What shall we use to turn dead, cold hearts into living, affectionate, and zealous ones toward the glory and greatness of Christ?

If I may be bluntly honest, we tend to spend more time building smaller anchors than utilizing the power of the only true one.  If we are attracting students to ourselves, our programs, our events, or our gatherings rather than to the all-sufficient Word of God, we are not overwhelmed by it’s power.  May we see the Scriptures for their supreme purpose and raise them high above the waves of compromise in order that the gospel may be rightly proclaimed and Jesus seen as infinitely valuable.  Soli Deo Gloria!

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding Word of God; for all flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass.  The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the Word of the Lord remains forever.  And this word is the good news that was preached to you (1 Peter 1:22-25).        

Today it begins…