Anchored in Christ, Committed in Marriage

​“The true effectiveness of an anchor is how it holds in the storm.”

I don’t know if this is an exact quote, as I wrote furiously the ideas our Teaching Leader was sharing in her lecture for Bible Study Fellowship that week.¹

Yet the concept grabbed me:

To whom or to what am I anchored?
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Anchor: “noun as in something used to hold another thing securely.”²

I’ve learned from experience that whenever that ‘something’ becomes anyone or anything other than my Lord Jesus, I am left hurt, disappointed, discouraged, angry, scared, or sad.

So how does this concept apply to marriage?

To whom or to what is your marriage anchored?

When the storms come, who or what holds your marriage securely?

I submit that what anchors a marriage in the storm, is the couple’s individual commitment to the Lord and to the vows they made to each other.

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