I am an emeritus professor from Cornell University and was a Commissioned Lay Preacher in the Presbyterian Church (USA). For many years I have followed the Daily Lectionary as printed in the Mission Yearbook of my church. For each day of a two-year cycle, the lectionary lists four psalms and three other scriptural passages--usually one from the Old Testament and two from the New Testament. My practice is to copy down a verse or two from one of the psalms and from each of the other three passages. After I have written out all four selections, I reflect upon them, rearrange their order, and incorporate them into a meditation. Sometimes I retain much of the original wording; sometimes all that remains of a selection is an idea that was stimulated when I read the original words. All selections are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. For the Daily Lectionary, see the link below.

Will My Love for You Grow Cold, O God?--July 10, 2014


God, it is not so hard to love you after you
have heard my voice and my supplications,
 but would my love grow cold if you did not
allow me to cross over the Jordan River?
Would not the clay then ask the Potter,
"Why have you made me like this?"

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 116; 147:12-20; 26; 130
Deut. 3:18-28
Rom. 9:19-33
Matt. 24:1-14

Selected Verses
Ps. 116:1
I love the LORD, because he has heard
          my voice and my supplications. 

Deut. 3:27
"…Go up to the top of Pisgah and look around you to the west, to the north, to the south, and to the east.  Look well, for you shall not cross over this Jordan.  …"  [The LORD to Moses]

Rom. 9:20b
Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, "Why have you made me like this?" 

Matt. 24:12
"…And because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold.  …"
 [Jesus to this disciples]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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