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.

Hope without Wavering--Jan. 31, 2014


 Can a child be born to a couple too old?
Can five thousand be fed with a boy's lunch?

Are your wonders known in the darkness,
or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope
without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 88; 148; 6; 20
Gen. 17:15-27
Heb. 10:11-25
John 6:1-15

Selected Verses

Ps. 88:12
Are your wonders known in the darkness,
          or your saving help in the land of forgetfulness?

Gen. 17:17
Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?"

Heb. 10:23
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

John 6:7
Philip answered [Jesus], "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of [the five thousand] to get a little."


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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