SERMON ILLUSTRATION (BY SPURGEON) to describe our hope in the midst of suffering.

Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your preaching to describe our hope in suffering.

Whatever happens to me, I trust in you. Down goes the anchor; that ship will never drift far out to sea. “O my God, I trust in you.” Can you say that, dear friends? Then, if you are in the dark, you are as safe as if you were in the light, for still, this anchor holds: “O my God, I trust in you.”