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.

To Enter Your Rest--Jan. 18, 2014


 We pray we may walk with you,
that we may become more righteous.

When the evening comes and our day is
ended, we pray we may rest from our labor.

We pray all the years of our life we may honor
the temple of our body, and then may enter your rest.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 104; 149; 138; 98
Gen. 6:9-22
Heb. 4:1-13
John 2:13-22

Selected Verses

Ps. 104:23
People go out to their work
          and to their labor until the evening.

Gen. 6:9b
Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

Heb. 4:10
…for those who enter God's rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.

John 2:20-21
The Jews then said, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"  But [Jesus] was speaking of the temple of his body.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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