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.

Protect Us, Be at Work in Us--Sept. 12, 2013


 Protect us, O God, for in you we take refuge.
Be at work in us; enable us to shelter the needy
as Obadiah saved the lives of the prophets,
as Joseph protected Mary and Jesus,
 as you have sheltered and protected us.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62
1 Kings 18:1-19
Phil. 2:12-30
Matt. 2:13-23

Selected Verses

Ps. 16:1
Protect me, O God, for in you I take refuge.

1 Kings 18:3b-4
(Now Obadiah revered the LORD greatly; when Jezebel was killing off the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets, hid them fifty to a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

Phil. 2:13
…for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Matt. 2:14-15a
Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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