The song “Will Your Anchor Hold?” is asking the question of your resolve. It also points to the anchor that has been afforded to us as servants of God. We have a confidence that none other can possess. However, it is conditional.
The reason for our confidence is mentioned in Hebrews 6:13-20. This passage begins by examining the example of Abraham (Heb. 6:13-15). God made a promise to Abraham. “Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, and said, ‘By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice’” (Gen. 22:15-18). On this occasion, we see the faith of Abraham because of his obedience. “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son; it was he to whom it was said, ‘In Isaac your descendants shall be called.’ He considered that God is able to raise people even from the dead, from which he also received him back as a type” (Heb. 11:17-19).
Hebrews also references the best-case scenario for men making an oath as well (6:16). We know that everything we say should be considered as binding as an oath. “Nor shall you make an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil” (Matt. 5:36-37).
God was able to make an oath by something stronger. “In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us” (Heb. 6:17-18). We are those that “have taken refuge,” and we are those that have “hope set before us”! This hope is “an anchor of the soul” and “sure and steadfast.” This is all conditional “if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end” (Heb. 3:6).
Don’t let your mind leave this thought without answering the question, “Will my anchor hold?” We have that anchor that enters the veil, the figure of God’s presence. We have also been promised help. “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb. 4:16). This is something that we have as children of God.