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 You Are With Us--Feb. 4, 2012



If a thing comes from you, O God,
we cannot speak bad or good about it.

If your favor is upon what we do,
the work of our hands will prosper.

Be with us, O Risen Christ, that we may
pursue peace and holiness with all people.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90
Gen. 24:28-38; 49-51
Heb. 12:12-29
John 7:14-36

Selected Verses
Ps. 90:17
Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
      and prosper for us the work of our hands--
      O prosper the work of our hands!

Gen. 24:50
Then Laban and Bethuel answered [Abraham's servant], "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you anything bad or good. …"

Heb. 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

John 7:33
Jesus then said, "I will be with you a little while longer, and then I am going to him who sent me. …"
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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