My Anchor Holds

MY ANCHOR HOLDS

Mooster:  Hi Kids! Tonight we are going to talk about water!

Moe: Ooooh ooooh oooh I love water! Like in swimming pools? It’s getting pretty hot out this summer!

Mooster: Yep – like in pools. And in lakes. And in rivers. And the ocean. Do you know any safety rules about water, Moe?

Moe:  Oh sure! No running around the sides of the pool. You could slip and hit your head and fall in the water. If you knocked yourself unconscious, you would drown when you fall in.

Mooster: True! No running around the edges of a pool. What else?

Moe: Don’t go in over your head unless you can swim. Don’t go in the water without an adult present. Don’t eat right before you swim.

Mooster: Moe, you know a lot about pool rules! Do you go swimming a lot?

Moe: Mooster, next to swinging in trees, I LOVE to swim in the water.

Mooster. Did you know those rules are true for when you are playing in any water- whether the pool or a lake or the ocean. You should always wear a life preserver when playing in the lakes and ocean – you never know if you might get a cramp and not be able to swim.

Moe: Yeah – make sure you get a nice bright yellow one. They look amazing….kind of like a floating banana!

Mooster: Okay, Moe, if you say so!

Moe: Hey I know a Bible story about water!

Mooster: Which one?

Moe: Well, when the children of Israel were leaving Egypt, Pharoah decided to chase after them. They came to the Red Sea and they couldn’t cross it! So Moses prayed and the Lord parted the water for them. Alllll the Israelites walked across the Red Sea on dry ground! Then when Pharoah’s army tried to chase after them, the Lord let the water fall back on them, and drowned them!

Mooster. I guess they weren’t wearing any banana yellow life preservers, huh?

Moe: Nope!

Mooster: There are lots of Bible stories about Jesus and water, too. Remember when the disciples had been fishing all night long and they didn’t catch anything?

Moe: Yep! Jesus said, “Cast your nets on the other side of the boat” and then the fish nets became FULLL of fish!

Mooster: Another time, Jesus came walking out to the boat that the disciples were in and Peter said, Lord if it be you, bid me come to you – let me walk on the water too!” And so Jesus did, and Peter jumped in the water and started walking on top of it, just like Jesus!

Moe: Yep – until he took his eyes off Jesus and fell in the water! But Jesus caught him up right away.

Mooster: Do you know what else, Moe? Sometimes when bad times come, people will say we are going through a storm in our life. If you have a boat on the shore and a storm comes up, you want your boat anchored so it won’t drift away. Do you know we can be like a boat and we can drift in our Christian life. But we have an Anchor!

Moe: Where? You mean you are dragging an anchor around with you? Isn’t that awfully heavy?

Mooster: No I don’t have a regular anchor. I have a spiritual Anchor. So do you.

Moe: Really? Where?

Mooster: Our spiritual Anchor is Jesus. He will keep us safe and steady. He won’t let us drift away from God’s will. If we ask Him to help us with things in our lives, He will!

Moe: Oh! I get it! There’s a song like that, too. My Anchor Holds. That’s a good song!

  

Mooster: Yep! Hebrews 6:19 says, Which hope we have (talking about Jesus) as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

Moe: I like to know that Jesus is my Anchor. That makes me feel even safer than my banana yellow life jacket!

Mooster: Well it should! You could take your life jacket off – but once you accept Jesus Christ into your heart as your Saviour, nothing can separate you. You can’t “take Him off” like a life preserver. He’s your Anchor forever!

Moe: Boys and Girls – remember that Jesus Christ is our Anchor!

Mooster: Bye!

Monkey Moe: Bye!