Anchored in Love and Faith: Living a Christ-Like Life in an Unstable World
Today’s Scriptural Arsenal (SA) is best enjoyed whilst listening to the song “In Christ Alone” – Keith & Kristyn Getty
Are you looking to find out how being anchored in Love and Faith is the only way out? In the world we live in today, where uncertainty and changing values threaten to drag us under, love and faith are unshakeable anchors to the Christ-like life, anchoring us into God’s truth when all about us appears unsteady.
Today’s Scriptural Arsenal is focused on the major anchors that make living the Christ-like life easy and possible. To live in a way patterned after the life of Jesus is to be able to love and show that you have faith. And this we learnt from God from himself because He loved us first before we loved Him (1 John 4:19). He created the world with faith, calling forth light for our benefit (Heb 11:3).
Picture the fishermen experiencing the storms—Peter was sinking when he looked at the waves, but would have continued walking on the water by keeping his eyes on Jesus, demonstrating how circumstance doesn’t make us who we are, but our anchors do (Matt 14:22-33; Heb 12:2).
Love is not sentimental. It is our radical commitment to Jesus Christ’s nature, allowing us to forgive when justice calls for revenge, to serve when pride cries out for praise, and to endure when society walks away, just as Jesus prayed for His killers from the cross. Faith, on the other hand, is the power that drives impossibilities to become realities, the assurance that speaks to mountains, not about them, invests in eternity, not quick fixes, and perceives the invisible the way David confronted Goliath armed with only a sling and God’s word.
Together, love and faith form an unstoppable force: anchors we need as Christians to live the Christ-like life. Love alone turns into humanistic charity, and faith alone turns into chilly dogma, but together they move mountains, just as the Good Samaritan’s love was fueled by faith and Paul’s perseverance through persecution was motivated by love.
To be living anchored in this truth, we must daily line up our lives to 1 Corinthians 13, exchanging “I can’t” for “Christ in me can” and stepping out into obedient action by loving the unlovable, giving freely, and praying for enemies. That is how the recovering addict remains clean, not by will, yet by saying “I am a new creation” while serving others in need, and that is how the single mom tithes her final $20 to be met by God’s provision in new, unexpected avenues.
Wealth, fame, and relationships, the anchors the world holds to, drag it down into life’s storms, but love and faith stand firm, taking the survivors of circumstance and making them redirectors of storms for us. Our love for God and man, and our faith towards Him.
Let this be our declaration: “I am grounded in the love of Christ and equipped by God-kind faith,” for such are the anchors that not just stabilize us, but launch us into our purpose, reminding us that we do not struggle to survive life’s battles—we triumph over them from one already won in Christ.
Declare this to one languishing in unbelief, for in a world lost, we are not grasping about on life rafts, but holding fast to the Rock of Ages, where faith, hope, and love endure, and the best is love.
Are you anchored in Christ today? Share how love and faith have kept you steady in life’s storms, or leave a prayer request below so we can believe with you!
Today’s Scriptural Arsenal (SA) for Daily Living will end here, but note that the Scriptural Arsenal (SA) will only do something once you put it to use. Remember that ONLY the Doers are glorified, but how can you be if you have not studied?
