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.


How Shall I Know?--Jan. 24, 2012



How shall I know you will keep your promises?
(Moses asked for a sign that he would possess the land.)

How shall I know who it was that healed me?
(The invalid by the Sheep Gate did not recognize Jesus.)

Will regulations for how to worship you be any help?
Happy are those whose help and hope are in you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 54; 146; 28; 99
Gen. 15:1-11, 17-21
Heb. 9:1-14
John 5:1-18

Selected Verses
Ps. 146:5
Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
      whose hope is in the LORD their God…

Gen. 15:7-8
Then [the LORD] said to [Abram], "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to possess." But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?"

Heb. 9:1
Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.

John 5:13
Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there.
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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