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.

December 04, 2008

I. Readings
Psalms 18:1-20, 62, 126
Isaiah 2:5-22
1 Thessalonians 3:1-13
Luke 20:27-40

II. Selections
Psalm 62:8
Trust in him at all times, O people;
pour out your heart before him;
God is a refuge for us.

Isaiah 2:5
O house of Jacob,
come, let us walk
in the light of the LORD!

1 Thessalonians 3:13
And may [ the Lord] so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of the Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Luke 20:38
" ...Now he is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to him all of them are alive." [ [ Jesus, in reply to a question from the Sadducees about the resurrection.]]

III. Meditation: Strengthen our hearts in holiness

O God our refuge, we trust in you,
for to you even the dead are alive;
strengthen our hearts in holiness,
as we pour them out before you,
that we may walk in your light.
In the name of the Lord Jesus.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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