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.

Unbind Us, Christ, Let Us Go--March 23, 2013


 God of mercy and covenant,
we would be your people;
but we are imprisoned
in our disobedience.

Unbind us, Christ, and let us go.
Send out your light, send out your truth,
write your will on our hearts, and let it lead us.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143
Jer. 31:27-34
Rom. 11:25-36
John 11:28-44

Selected Verses

Ps. 43:3a
O send out your light and your truth;
     let them lead me…

Jer. 31:33
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 
Rom. 11:32
For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.
 
John 11:44b
Jesus said to them, "Unbind him [Lazarus], and let him go."


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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