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.

Come Dwell With Us--March 28, 2011


O Jesus, we know where you come from;
we know that the one who sent you is true,
whose hands have made and fashioned us.
We trust in him—he justifies the ungodly.

Come dwell in our hearts and strengthen us
to amend our ways and our doings, that we
may not oppress the alien, orphan, or widow;
or shed innocent blood; or go after other gods.


Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6
Jer. 7:1-15
Rom. 4:1-12
John 7:14-36

Selected Verses
Ps. 119:73
Your hands have made and fashioned me;
      give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Jer. 7:5-7a
For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place… [From the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD]

Rom. 4:5
But to one who without works trusts him who justifies the ungodly, such faith is reckoned as righteousness.

John 7:28
Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him. …”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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