The believer's hope in Christ is likened by the apostle in Hebrews 6:19 as an "anchor." What a blessing it is that the Holy Spirit would use language that would encourage and strengthen the hearts and minds of God's people. I know what the purpose of an anchor is. It is to secure the vessel to which it is fastened and keep it from drifting and running aground. In Christ our Refuge we receive "strong consolation" of our being joined to God securely in our Lord Jesus Christ. When Paul speaks of this "anchor" of hope, he says that it is "both sure and steadfast." It holds fast regardless of the wind, the storm or the current. We are fastened to our Anchor by the chain of God's purpose and will, by the cable of Covenant Suretyship, by the cords of divine love, by the scarlet cord of blood redemption, and by the unbreakable cords of union and imputation with Christ. Then we are joined to Him by God-given faith and "lay hold upon the hope set before us." Now our safety does not depend on our ability to hold on to the anchor but upon the ability of the anchor to hold. Our anchor will hold because it was dropped in the right and necessary place. Christ our Anchor "entereth into that within the veil." I must be secure to God who dwells in unapproachable holiness and justice. My sin has brought the separating veil and the way is closed. But Christ has opened the way through the veil. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;" Believers are inseparably joined to Christ our Anchor who entered into the holy place of God with His own blood satisfying God's justice for us and establishing all righteousness on our behalf. He entered in and "dropped anchor" in the presence of God. He "sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high" and "made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Now our "forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." By faith we have a hope in Him that is "steadfast and sure," knowing that where He is and what He is that is where and what we are also!