Hope requires trust

1. Our Hope in God requires trust. 

Romans 4:18 New King James Version (NKJV)

18 who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he (Abraham) became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

Psalm 42:11 New King James Version (NKJV)

11 Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God;
For I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

We must not trust in our circumstances or emotions but in God. They will lie to us. 

2. Anchors are anchored to something unseen (beneath the water).

2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV)

7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Refuse to be lead by your circumstances or emotions.  Allow God's Word change your perspective.  

3.  Our hope in God is found in a relationship with Jesus Christ.  

Psalm 62:5 (NKJV)

5 My soul, wait silently for God alone,
For my expectation is from Him.

Isaiah 40:31  (NKJV)

31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

Romans 15:13  (NKJV)

13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

The power of the anchor is not in the anchor, but what the anchor is attached too.  

Christ Hodges, Church of the Highlands