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.


Questions for Jesus--July 21, 2011

What have you to do with us, Jesus?
Are you the one through whom God answers us?
Is it you who will show us the goodness
of the Lord in the land of the living?
Is it through your grace that salvation comes?

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27
1 Sam. 28:3-20
Acts 15:1-11
Mark 5:1-20

Selected Verses
Ps. 27:13
I believe that I shall see the goodness of the LORD
      in the land of the living.

1 Sam. 28:6
When Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, not by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

Acts 15:10-11
“…Now therefore why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear? On the contrary, we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” [Peter to the other apostles and elders]

Mark 5:6-7
When [the man with an unclean spirit] saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him; and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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