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.

Afraid of God?--Aug. 3, 2013


 How can we be afraid of you?
You have compassion for us
when we are hungry;

you give us life, and breath,
and all things.

You have been our help--
in the shadow of your wings
we sing for joy.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63
2 Sam. 5:22-6:11
Acts 17:16-34
Mark 8:1-10

Selected Verses

Ps. 63:7
…for you have been my help,
          and in the shadow of your wings I sing for joy.

2 Sam. 6:9
David was afraid of the LORD that day; he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come into my care?”

Acts 17:25
"…nor is [God] served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.  …"  [Paul to the Athenians]

Mark 8:1-2a
In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, [Jesus] called his disciples and said to them, "I have compassion for the crowd…"

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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