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.

Your Living Water--Jan. 23, 2014



Lord Jesus, you have given us
your living water, that we may feast
upon the abundance of your house and
may drink from the river of your delights.

Wherever we have been scattered over the face
of the earth, and whatever our language,
you have given us hope, a sure and
steadfast anchor of the soul.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 36; 147:12-20; 80; 27
Gen. 11:1-9
Heb. 6:13-20
John 4:1-15

Selected Verses

Ps. 36:8
 [All people may] feast on the abundance of your house,
          and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Gen. 11:9
Therefore it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Heb. 6:19
We have this hope, a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters the inner shrine behind the curtain…

John 4:10
Jesus answered [the Samaritan woman], "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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