Hebrews 6:13 says that when God made His promise to Abraham, He had to swear by Himself because there is no one greater. Verse 17 uses the words, “…the immutability of His counsel…”

Verse 18 says, “That by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.”

Verse 19 says, “This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil.” I read this account and will share part of it with you.

In 1832 the Hojun-maru, a cargo ship laden with rice and porcelain, left the port of Onuora Japan headed to present day Tokyo. Fourteen months later the ship washed ashore on the coast of Washington state. The Hojun-maru had lost its rudder in a storm. It helplessly drifted 5,000 miles off course.

Hope can’t drift. It anchors us to eternity through the irrefutable resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our anchor is secured in steadfast, unchangeable, and unalterable truth.