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.


Redeemed and Sent--Jan. 21, 2012



Holy and awesome is your name, O God;
you have sent redemption to your people.

We try to save ourselves through pretense,
which only gets us booted out of Egypt.

Jesus lives to make intercession for us;
help us approach you through him.

He sends us to reap that for
which we did not labor.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 56; 149; 118; 111
Gen. 12:9-13:1
Heb. 7:18-28
John 4:27-42

Selected Verses
Ps 111:9
He sent redemption to his people;
      he has commanded his covenant forever.
      Holy and awesome is his name.

Gen. 12:13
"…Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account." [Abram to Sarai, before they entered Egypt]

Heb. 7:25
Consequently [Jesus] is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

John 4:38
"…I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor." [Jesus to his disciples]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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