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.

You Do not See as We See--June 10, 2013


 Come, Lord Jesus, be made known to us,
that we may have a new song to sing,
and a new way of seeing what
you have made clean.

For you do not see as we see;
we look at outward appearance,
but you look on the heart.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 147:1-11; 132; 134
1 Sam. 16:1-13
Acts 10:1-16
Luke 24:13-35

Selected Verses

Ps. 96:1
O sing to the LORD a new song;
          sing to the LORD, all the earth.

1 Sam. 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”

Acts 10:15
The voice said to [Peter] again, a second time, “What God has made clean, you must not call profane.”

Luke 24:35
Then [the two disciples who had met Jesus on the way to Emmaus] told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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