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 Son, Close to Your Heart--Jan. 13, 2014


No one has ever seen you,
but we know you do not
delight in wickedness
or sojourn with evil.

We have not seen you,
for you made us from dust;
your Son has made you known.

He is the reflection of your glory, and
he is the exact imprint of your very being,
and he sustains all things by his powerful word.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29
Gen. 2:4-25
Heb. 1:1-14
John 1:1-18

Selected Verses

Ps. 5:4
 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
          evil will not sojourn with you.

Gen. 2:7
…then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being.

Heb. 1:3
[The Son] is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word.

John 1:18
No one has ever seen God.  It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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