Hope is in You.<\/p>\n
As you light your first candle of Advent take time to ponder this verse: What if someone were to ask you today what the reason was for the hope that is in you?\u00a0 What would you say? These are all things that we believers need to ponder, for we always need to be ready to give an answer to anyone who might ask us about our hope and faith, and our answer should be given humbly and reverently. As the Advent candle burns bright and chases the darkness away, ponder upon the Hope that is in you, and how you would share that hope with others.<\/p>\n SGLY Ministry.\u00a0 Smile God Loves You Org.<\/p>\n \u00a92025 SGLY Ministry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hope is in You. As you light your first candle of Advent take time to ponder this verse: But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 1 Peter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,45],"tags":[31,14,135,34,4,30,35,32,33],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","category-hope","tag-1peter-315","tag-advent","tag-advent-2025","tag-believer","tag-hope","tag-hope-is-in-you","tag-love-the-lord-god-with-all-your-heart","tag-matthew-2237","tag-sanctify-the-lord-god-in-your-hearts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOPE-5-You-1Peter-3.15.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smilegodlovesyou.org\/advent\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:<\/em>
\n1 Peter 3:15.<\/p>\n
\nDo you have hope in you?\u00a0 If you are a believer, you should have, and you should be able to tell someone why.<\/p>\n
\nPeter says we should “sanctify the Lord God in our hearts.”\u00a0 What does that mean to you?\u00a0 Sanctify to me means to set aside as holy, as special.
\nJesus said: \u201c\u2018You shall love the Lord<\/span>\u00a0your\u00a0God with\u00a0all<\/b>\u00a0your<\/b>\u00a0heart<\/b>,…”,<\/em>\u00a0Matthew 22:37, to me that is what sanctify means.<\/p>\n