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.

He Has Come into His Glory--March 31, 2013


 You have remembered us in our low estate;
God, your steadfast love endures forever.

We shall come into Zion with singing;
sorrow and sighing shall flee away,

for our Messiah has suffered; but
 he has entered into his glory.

From his fullness we have
all received, grace
upon grace.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Exod. 12:1-14
John 1:1-18
Isa. 51:9-11
Luke 24:13-35
John 20:19-23

Selected Verses

Ps. 136:23
It is he who remembered us in our low estate,
          for his steadfast love endures forever…

John 1:16
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

Isa. 51:11
So the ransomed of the Lord shall return,
          and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
          they shall obtain joy and gladness,
          and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Luke 24:26
"…Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”  [The risen Jesus, on the road to Emmaus]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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