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.

Kingdom, Power, Glory--June 12, 2022

[From June 7, 2020 archive]

 

Hallelujah, Lord God the Almighty!

The knowledge of you is too wonderful

for me—I cannot attain it. 

 

Who am I to question you, O God? 

Make me humble like John the Baptist, 

who accepted his rank below Jesus.

 

Make me content to rejoice in you,

to exult because yours is the kingdom, 

the power, and the glory.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Job 38:1-11; 42:1-6

Rev. 19:4-16

John 1:29-34

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 139:6

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
          it is so high that I cannot attain it.

 

Job 38:1-2

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:
    “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?  …”

 

Rev. 19:6b-7a

“Hallelujah!
     For the Lord our God
          the Almighty reigns.
     Let us rejoice and exult
          and give him the glory…”  [The voice of a great multitude]

 

John 1:29-30

The next day [John the Baptist] saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!  This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because he was before me.’  …” 


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

2 comments:

  1. Mea SententiaJune 12, 2022 at 12:03 PM

    Acceptance and contentment are wise counsel for me regarding my station in life.
    Chris

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  2. AnonymousJune 13, 2022 at 12:30 AM

    Thanks, Chris.
    For me, likewise. Elmer

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