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.

Lead My Heart on the Road to You--Feb. 7, 2014


 Blessed are you, O God of Abraham.
Lead my heart on the road to you,
and let my strength be in you;
for, in your steadfast love
and faithfulness, you
do not forsake us.
God, let me show
your love to the world;
and may I remember all the
hostility that Jesus endured, so
I will not grow weary or lose heart.

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 148; 25; 40
Gen. 24:1-27
Heb. 12:3-11
John 7:1-13

Selected Verses

Ps. 84:5

 Happy are those whose strength is in you,
          in whose heart are the highways to Zion.

 

Gen. 24:27

…and [the servant] said, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master.  As for me, the LORD has led me on the way to the house of my master's kin."

 

Heb. 12:3

Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart.

 

John 7:4b-5

"…If you do these things, show yourself to the world."  (For not even [Jesus'] brothers believed in him.)


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