Sanctity and Sanity

“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 3:15).

Sanctify means “set apart”,

As thrones are set apart for kings.

Shouldn’t we reserve our heart

For God instead of earthly things?

A heart that’s sanctified for God

Is consecrated as His throne.

It matters not who will applaud

If life is lived for God alone. 

Be ready then to answer those

Who ask you where your hope is found,

Then point to Christ who died and rose

To reign in hearts where He is crowned.

We thank You, Lord, for sanity

And reason in this senseless place,

That spares us from the vanity

That robs the soul of hope and grace.