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.

Our Resurrection, Our Life--March 22, 2013

 
 To you we sing praise, O blessed Lord Jesus,
and we tell of your wonderful works.
Your plans are for our welfare, and not
for our harm; you give us a future with hope.

How often we have fallen down into unbelief,
but in your power pray graft us back in.
Jesus, you are our resurrection, our life;
even though we die, Lord in you we will live.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Jer. 29:1-14
Rom. 11:13-24
John 11:1-27

Selected Verses

Ps. 105:2
 Sing to [the LORD], sing praises to him;
          tell of all his wonderful works.

Jer. 29:11
For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.

Rom. 11:23
And even those of Israel, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

John 11:25
Jesus said to [Martha], “I am the resurrection and the life.  Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live…"

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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