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.

In Right Paths, for Your Name's Sake--Apr. 2, 2016

[From Apr. 26, 2014 archive]

God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
you led Moses and your people
in the roundabout way of the
wilderness toward the Red Sea.

When our way seems roundabout,
for your name's sake remind us
to walk by faith, not by sight,
confident that you will lead us in
right paths through the wilderness.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114
Exod. 13:17-14:4
2 Cor. 4:16-5:10
Mark 12:18-27

Selected Verses
Ps. 23:3b
 [The LORD] leads me in right paths
          for his name’s sake.

Exod. 13:18a
So God led the people by the roundabout way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. 

2 Cor. 5:6-7
So we are always confident; even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord--for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Mark 12:26
"…And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?  …"  [Jesus to the Sadducees]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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