{"id":6730,"date":"2023-12-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6730"},"modified":"2023-11-22T17:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T00:45:23","slug":"first-sunday-of-advent-hope-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=6730","title":{"rendered":"First Sunday of Advent: Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s Advent Season already, not a minute too soon. I could use a dose of hope, right now. On a personal note, our pastor<\/a> is being treated for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. We have the prospect of a presidential election where virtually no one wants either candidate. We have ongoing wars in Ukraine and Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These things are not taking God by surprise, and Advent reminds us that Jesus entered into our pain, coming into a world that was pretty messed up then, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. (Psalm 42.11, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29.11, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. \u201cThe LORD is my portion,\u201d says my soul, \u201ctherefore I will hope in him.\u201d (Lamentations 3.21 – 24, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved with whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory; and in his name the Gentiles will hope. (Matthew 12.18 – 21, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Advent Season already, not a minute too soon. I could use a dose of hope, right now. On a personal note, our pastor is being treated for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. We have the prospect of a presidential election where virtually no one wants either candidate. We have ongoing wars in Ukraine and Israel. … Continue reading First Sunday of Advent: Hope<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-1Ky","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6760,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/6760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}