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.

Free to Live for Others--Feb. 13, 2014


[from Feb. 10, 2012 archive]

Lord Jesus, make me free, and I will be free indeed.
Have mercy on me, according to your abundant
mercy and steadfast love.

Then let me live for others, remembering always
what you have done for me; for even Jacob
remembered God's goodness.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 51; 148; 142; 65
Gen. 27:46-28:4
Rom. 13:1-14
John 8:33-47

Selected Verses

Ps. 51:1
Have mercy on me, O God,
          according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
          blot out my transgressions.

Gen. 27:18
So Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

Rom. 13:10
Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

John 8:36
"…So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.  …"  [Jesus to the Jews who had believed in him]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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