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.

No One Living Is Righteous before You--Feb. 17, 2018



God, do not enter into judgment with us; no one living is
righteous before you, and we confess that we are not.
Do not deal with us according to our uncleanness
and our transgressions, dear God, but may
the love with which you have loved
Jesus be in us, and he in us.
And make us content
with whatever
we have.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143
Ezek. 39:21-29
Phil. 4:10-20
John 17:20-26

Selected Verses
Ps. 143:2
 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
          for no one living is righteous before you.

Ezek. 39:24
I dealt with [the house of Israel] according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid my face from them.

Phil. 4:11
Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. 

John 17:26
"…I made your name known to [those that you have sent me], and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."  [Jesus, praying for his disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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