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.

We Extol You, Holy God--April 10, 2013



We extol you, holy God.
You know what is in the darkness,
and light dwells with you.

We extol you, who are from the beginning.
We know you because Jesus made
your name known to us.

We extol you; we worship you.
May Jesus be in us, and also in us
the love with which you loved him.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 99; 147:1-11; 9; 118
Dan. 2:17-30
1 John 2:12-17
John 17:20-26

Selected Verses

Ps. 99:9
Extol the LORD our God,
          and worship at his holy mountain;
          for the LORD our God is holy.

Dan. 2:22
[God] reveals deep and hidden things;
          he knows what is in the darkness,
          and light dwells with him.

1 John 2:13a
 I am writing to you, fathers,
          because you know him who is from the beginning.

John 17:26
"…I made your name known to [those you have given me], and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”  [Jesus, praying with his disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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