Anchored Not Anxious
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Anchored Not Anxious
Time to Ditch Your Surface-Level Relationship with Jesus
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You can know someone by name, in a specific context, or deeply—through countless conversations and shared experiences. But how well do you really know Jesus?
In this episode, explore what it means to move beyond surface-level faith into a relationship marked by curiosity, questions, and genuine connection.
Drawing from Isaiah 26:4 and personal journey, discover how getting to know Christ transforms Him from a distant figure into the Rock—your sure foundation and anchor through life's storms.
Whether you're a new believer or have walked with God for years, this episode invites you to knock on the door of His heart again and again, learning why you matter so deeply to Him.
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Isn’t it delightful to be introduced by a friend to their friend or friends. You become an object of curiosity. Questions are asked. How did you meet each other? What do you do? Where have you traveled? What are your interests?
You know someone is curious about what makes you, you, because they ask questions and seek a connection with you.
You can be known vaguely, superficially, in a context, or deeply.
I can know my neighbor by name but little else. I may learn they have small or adult children or leave and return home on a schedule. I might play golf with or go to church with people and identify with them in that limited context. Or I extend an interest in learning about who they are and what matters to them. No just once but over and over.
As I grew up in my parents home, our family operated like a closed unit. My parents had few friends, so I rarely saw friendship modeled. We were rarely encouraged to have other children over to our house. I learned how to be a friend from trial and error. I enjoyed a friend’s companionship but did not know how to develop deeper connection.
Then I met Lori. She has an innate curiosity, resulting in a multitude of questions to learn about someone she has met. Even after she knows you, she keeps trying to get to know you more. I’ve learned so much from her about cultivating a sense of intrigue about the other person.
You get to know someone by knocking on the door of their heart. Each time the door opens, your depth of knowing them increases.
The Word of God is like a photo album of Jesus’s life. Everything you can know about Him is written there. How curious are you to get to know Jesus more than you do now?
Who He spent time with on earth?
What He said or didn’t say?
Who He loved?
Why He hung with certain people?
What made Him angry, empathetic, or pleased?
What He thinks of you?
By having the answers to the questions above, you learn why you are so important to Him. You.
Valued. Treasured. A soul worth saving because you have worth in His eyes and heart.
I’m not certain you can truly grasp what you mean to Jesus, to God, if you haven’t gotten in close and examined the conversations, passion, and heart and mind of Christ.
As a new Christian in my 20s, I said to God, “I don’t understand why I have to go through a middle man named Jesus”. Jesus felt like a middle man because I thought I had a relationship with God without Jesus.
Of course, you can’t know God without knowing Jesus. Knowing Him grows as you suffer, struggle, find joy, rest in His peace, and worship with believers.
In the process, a trust in His ways and His work in your life becomes an anchor that you embed into the Lord the Rock eternal (Isaiah 26:4).
You’ve probably heard someone say, he or she is or was my rock. Rock is sure ground, a strong foundation. Someone that can be relied upon. There is history between them. A knowing and being known so deep and so strong nothing can destroy it.
Who is your rock? Is it Jesus? God?
Ask questions with a curiosity to know more about who God is to you and who you are to God.
