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.

Hearers and Doers--Feb. 28, 2013


 Jesus, you have done great things for us;
when we hear of them, we are astonished.

We your people are skilled at doing many things,
but we do not seem to know how to do good.

Remind us that it is one thing to hear you,
quite another thing to do what we hear.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Jer. 4:9-10, 19-28
Rom. 2:12-24
John 5:19-29

Selected Verses

Ps. 126:3
The LORD has done great things for us,
          and we rejoiced.

Jer. 4:22c
 "[My people] are skilled in doing evil,
          but do not know how to do good.”  [The LORD to Jeremiah]

Rom. 4:13
For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

John 5:20
"…The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing; and he will show him greater works than these, so that you will be astonished.  …"  [Jesus to those who wanted to kill him]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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