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.

Where Did You Come to Know Us?--Jan. 16, 2014


 "Where did you come to know me?"
asked Nathanael of Jesus.
Where did you come to know us, God,
and we to know you?

Cain built a city, named it for his son;
but our hope is from you.
Christ was faithful over your house
as a Son; and--if we hold firm
to what we hope for--we are your house.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62
Gen. 4:17-26
Heb. 3:1-11
John 1:43-51

Selected Verses

Ps. 62:5
 For God alone my soul waits in silence,
          for my hope is from him.

Gen. 4:17
Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and named it Enoch after his son Enoch.

Heb. 3:6
Christ, however, was faithful over God's house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the confidence and the pride that belong to hope.

John 1:48
Nathanael asked [Jesus], "Where did you come to know me?"  Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called you."


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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