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.


Faithless/Delivered; Faithful/Slain--Nov. 16, 2011



Though your people have been faithless,
you deliver us from the snare of the
fowler and the deadly pestilence.

Truer than a gold-rod measure, Jesus
was faithful; betrayed into human hands
he was slain, his disciples greatly distressed.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 65; 147:1-11; 125; 91
Ezra 10:1-17
Rev. 21:9-21
Matt.17:22-27

Selected Verses
Ps. 91:3
For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
     and from the deadly pestilence…

Ezra 10:6b
[Ezra] did not eat bread or drink water, for he was mourning over the faithlessness of the exiles.

Rev. 21:15
The angel who talked to me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city and its gates and walls.

Matt. 17:22-23
As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised.” And [his disciples] were greatly distressed.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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