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 the Light of Life--June 25, 2022

[From June 27, 2020 archive]

 

Hosanna to you, Lord Jesus; 

hosanna in the highest heaven! 

 

The life you died, you died to sin, 

but the life you live, you live in God. 

 

Forbid that I should refuse to let you in;

make me dead to sin and alive to God in you. 

 

You have delivered my soul from death,

and my feet from falling, so that

 

I may walk before you, 

in the light of life.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111

Numb. 20:14-29

Rom. 6:1-11

Matt. 21:1-11

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 56:13

 For you have delivered my soul from death,
          and my feet from falling,
so that I may walk before God
          in the light of life.

 

Num. 20:21

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through their territory; so Israel turned away from them.

 

Rom. 6:10-11

The death [Christ] died, he died to sin, once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.  So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

 

Matt. 21:9

The crowds that went ahead of [Jesus] and that followed were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!  Hosanna in the highest heaven!”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

2 comments:

  1. Mea SententiaJune 25, 2022 at 12:33 PM

    This is a beautiful meditation. The one thing that would improve it is if it used the word 'forfend'. Forfend that I should refuse to let you in.
    Chris 😊

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    1. AnonymousJune 25, 2022 at 9:51 PM

      Thank you, Chris, and forfend that I should differ with you about your suggested improvement😇.

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