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.


If We Love You--Apr. 26, 2011


If we love you we will keep your word,
and you will come to us—you and your
Father—and make your home with us.

The promise is for all who are called to you;
as I believe, that means it is for everyone.

When you are with us, you will protect us,
saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
“If we love you”…may it be so.


Lectionary Readings
Ps. 98; 146; 66; 116
Isa. 30:18-26
Acts 2:36-47
John 14:15-31

Selected Verses
Ps. 116:1
I love the LORD, because he has heard
      my voice and my supplications.

Isa. 30:21
And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Acts 2:39
“…For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.” [Peter addressing the crowd on the day of Pentecost]

John 14:23
Jesus answered [Judas—not Iscariot], “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. …”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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