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.


Where We Take Our Stand--April 25, 2012



Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet you;
they took their stand at the foot of Mount Sinai.
You were their strength and their might,
and you became their salvation.

Then in Christ all your fullness was pleased to dwell;
your Son, your Beloved, with whom you were
well pleased, has become our salvation;
and he is where we take our stand.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 99; 147:1-11; 9; 118
Exod. 19:16-25
Col. 1:15-23
Matt. 3:13-17

Selected Verses
Ps. 118:14
The LORD is my strength and my might;
      he has become my salvation.

Exod. 19:17
Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

Col. 1:19
For in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell…

Matt. 3:17
And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased."
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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