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.

Heart and Flesh Sing for Joy--Feb. 21, 2016


My heart and my flesh sing for joy
to you, O living God;
I am astonished by your works;
put your Spirit within me,
that I may walk in newness of life.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32
Gen. 41:14-45
Rom. 6:3-14
John 5:19-24

Selected Verses
Ps. 84:2b
…my heart and my flesh sing for joy
          to the living God.

Gen. 41:38
Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this--one in whom is the spirit of God?"

Rom. 6:4
Therefore we have been buried with [Christ] by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

John 5:20
"…The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.  …"
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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