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.

May 07, 2006

I. Readings
Psalms 93, 117, 136, 150
Exodus 28:1-4, 30-38
1 John 2:18-29
Mark 6:30-44

II. Selections
Psalm 93:1b-2
[ The LORD] has established the world; it shall never be moved;
your throne is established from of old;
you are from everlasting.

Exodus 28:30
In the breastpiece of judgment you shall put the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be on Aaron's heart when he goes in before the LORD; thus Aaron shall bear the judgment of the Israelites on his heart before the LORD continually.

1 John 2:21
I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth.

Mark 6:37
But [ Jesus] answered [ his disciples], "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?"

III. Meditation: Not through Urim and Thummim
You have established the world;
you are from everlasting.
To know the truth
we must come before you-
not through Urim and Thummim,
but through Jesus
(he who tells us to gather our own resources
and feed the hungry).

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)