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.


Membership in Your Household--May 19, 2012

[from May 22, 2004 archive]

There is much concern over who is a member of your household.
Does the leper qualify? Are some prophesying
who do not have the proper credentials?

You have made us all citizens with the saints.
For this we give you thanks
and sing praises to your name,
declaring your steadfast love in the
morning and your faithfulness by night.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114
Num. 11:16-17; 24-29
Eph. 2:11-22
Matt. 7:28-8:4

Selected Verses
Ps. 92:1-3
It is good to give thanks to the LORD,
      to sing praises to your name, O Most High;
to declare your steadfast love in the morning,
      and your faithfulness by night,
to the music of the lute and the harp,
      to the melody of the lyre.

Num. 11:27
And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”

Eph. 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

Matt. 8:2
…and there was a leper who came to [Jesus] and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you choose, you can make me clean.”

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