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.

The Strength of a Little Child--Dec. 18, 2014


I love you, O God, my strength;
Make me strong in the strength of your power--
not the power of wolf or leopard or lion,
but the strength of a little child.

For you did not send your Son
into the world  to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 18:1-20; 147:12-20; 126; 62
Isa. 11:1-9
Eph. 6:10-20
John 3:16-21

Selected Verses
Ps. 18:1
I love you, O LORD, my strength.                                                                                                                                                               
Isa. 11:6
The wolf shall live with the lamb,
     the leopard shall lie down with the kid,
the calf and the lion and the fatling together,
     and a little child shall lead them. 

Eph. 6:10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

John 3:17
"…Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  …"  [Jesus to Nicodemus]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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