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 and your Father, still Working--Jan. 28, 2014


 Lord Jesus, you have purified our conscience
from dead works to worship the living God;
and you and your Father are working still.

Then why, O Lord, do we wonder how we
shall know that your promises are true?
Open our blind eyes, Jesus; set us free.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 54; 146; 28; 99
Gen. 15:1-11, 17-21
Heb. 9:1-14
John 5:1-18

Selected Verses

Ps. 146:7c-8a
The LORD sets the prisoners free;
            the LORD opens the eyes of the blind.  

Gen. 15:8
But [Abram] said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess [this land]?"

Heb. 9:14
…how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

John 5:17
But Jesus answered [those who criticized him for healing on the Sabbath], "My Father is still working, and I also am working."

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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