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.

Created in Christ for Good Works--May 17, 2015


We give you thanks, O God of heaven--
your steadfast love endures forever.
We are what you have made us,
created in Christ Jesus for good works
that you have prepared to be our way of life,
but we can be a rebellious people.
Sometime we hear your words;
sometimes we refuse to hear.
Help us be faithful disciples,
every day more like Jesus.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Ezek. 3:16-27
Eph. 2:1-10
Matt. 10:24-33, 40-42

Selected Verses
Ps. 136:26
O give thanks to the God of heaven,
          for his steadfast love endures forever.

Ezek. 3:27
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, “Thus says the Lord God”; let those who will hear, hear; and let those who refuse to hear, refuse; for they are a rebellious house.  [The LORD to the prophet]

Eph. 2:10
For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

Matt. 10:25a
"…it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master.  …"  [Jesus to his disciples]

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