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.

By Sending Your Son--Dec. 25, 2013


 O God, you revealed your love among us
by sending your Son into the world,
that we might live through him.
He whom you sent spoke your words,
for you gave him the Spirit without measure.
In your strength he stands and feeds his flock;
he feeds us in the majesty of your name.
Happy are all who take refuge in him.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 2; 147:1-11; 98; 96
Micah 4:1-5; 5:2-4
1 John 4:7-16
John 3:31-36

Selected Verses

Ps. 2:11c
Happy are all who take refuge in the LORD.

Micah 5:4a
And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD,
            in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.

1 John 4:9
God's love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

John 3:34
He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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