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.

In the Time of Trial and Trouble--Sept. 27, 2013


You give us each particular gifts--
some have one kind, and some another;
but all of us have our trials and our troubles.
In the time of trial, rescue us from the evil one;
in the day of trouble, God, protect us from
the one who has no use for peace.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 88; 148; 6; 20
2 Kings 9:17-37
1 Cor. 7:1-9
Matt. 6:7-15

Selected Verses

Ps. 20:1
 The LORD answer you in the day of trouble!
          The name of the God of Jacob protect you!

2 Kings 9:19b
Jehu answered [King Joram's messenger], "What have you to do with peace?  Fall in behind me."

1 Cor. 7:6b
But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.

Matt. 6:13
 "…And do not bring us to the time of trial,
               but rescue us from the evil one.  …"  [Jesus teaching his disciples to pray]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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