Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Psalm 43:3.

I love the above passage in Psalm 43 because it reminds me that God’s truth is the light that dispels darkness. God is light and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5. God spoke and there was light Genesis 1:3. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. John 1:4.

Darkness will never overcome light as even a single candle flame will show, but in 1 Samuel 28, Saul turned to darkness when he was afraid and terror filled his heart v. 5. He seeks out a medium to inquire of Samuel who has died. When he asked God he received no answer and I can’t help but wonder how long he waited to hear from God. Finding no answer in the time he allowed, he turned to what he believed in.

I’m no theologian and I’m not sure what to make of the verses that tell of Samuel speaking to Saul. What I do wonder is why when Saul saw the Philistine army gathered and all Israel is gathered v. 4, why Saul left to get reassurance from anyone other than God? He had no sure anchor.

Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. Hebrews 7:17-19. I can google you are our anchor verse and go right to a verse in Scripture. Saul didn’t have that. The amazing thing to me is neither did I until I spent time with God. I talk with Him and I know He hears. I can wait as long as it takes because I’m with Him. He is my anchor in this life that is stormy when all else is fierce wind that dissipates eventually leaving no foundation. Saul never found that anchor but one day he will.

What does it mean to have God as my anchor? It means knowing He is here…sometimes I feel Him beside me. It means in a world growing increasingly violent I trust God. He has us. Yes there will still be violence because we live in a broken world that does not trust God. In this world you will have trouble. John 16:33. God never lies to us. He doesn’t sugar-coat anything. Saul had trouble. David had trouble. David knew where his help came from and it wasn’t from mediums. My help comes from God who reassures me daily I am loved and I am His. But take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33. He is my anchor that lights the truth of His redeeming love for us.

The light of His truth that guides me is that Jesus died for me after living a human life subject to death as I am subject to death. The difference is He rose from death. I can’t do that. He can and He will raise us from death to life. He led the way just as He led the way of how to live on this earth in this life we have been given. Trust God. He has us.