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.

Why Should We Be Cast Down?--March 10, 2013


 You are in the midst of us, O God.
Why should we be cast down?
Do we not yet understand?
Children of the promise,
we are called by your name.
Do not forsake us, our help and
our God; we shall again praise you.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32
Jer. 14:1-22
Gal. 4:21-5:1
Mark 8:11-21

Selected Verses

Ps. 42:5-6a
Why are you cast down, O my soul,
          and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
          my help and my God.

Jer. 14:9b
 Yet you, O LORD, are in the midst of us,
          and we are called by your name;
          do not forsake us!

Gal. 4:28
Now you, my friends, are children of the promise, like Isaac.

Mark 8:21
Then [Jesus] said to [his disciples], “Do you not yet understand?”

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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