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.


You Loved Him, and He Loved Us--April 18, 2012



O God Most High,

we will be glad and exult in you
and we will sing praise to your name.

We have seen you as in a cloud of glory;
indeed we have tasted that you are good.

Jesus said that to glorify you we should
bear much fruit, become his disciples.

You loved him, God; and he loved us;
we pray we may abide in his love.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 99; 147:1-11; 9; 118
Exod. 15:22-16:10
1 Peter 2:1-10
John 15:1-11

Selected Verses
Ps. 9:2
I will be glad and exult in you;
      I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Exod. 16:10
And as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the Israelites, they looked toward the wilderness, and the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

1 Peter 2:3
…if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

John 15:8-9
"…My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. …" [Jesus to his disciples]
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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