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 Are God and You Made Us--Nov. 23, 2013


 You are God and you made us; we are yours.
If we are attentive to your words for us,
and if we are ready to heed them,
then we should know that to
enjoy your mercy to us,
we must show it
for others.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63
Neh. 7:73b-8:3, 5-18
Rev. 22:14-21
Matt. 18:21-35

Selected Verses

Ps. 100:3
Know that the LORD is God.
          It is he that made us, and we are his;
          we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Neh. 8:3c
…and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

Rev. 22:19
…if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away that person’s share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

Matt. 18:33
"…'Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’  …"  [A king to the slave whose huge debt he had forgiven]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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