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.

Transform Us by Your Spirit--April 10, 2014


O Christ, our light and our salvation,
why should we fear to follow you?

We have no pharaoh to stop us,
but our many possessions do.

Transform us by your Spirit
that we may see your glory,

that our love for you is more
 than our love for our possessions.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Exod. 7:25-8:19
2 Cor. 3:7-18
Mark 10:17-31

Selected Verses
Ps. 27:1a
The LORD is my light and my salvation;
          whom shall I fear?

Exod. 8:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD: Let my people go, so that they may worship me.  …'" 

2 Cor. 3:18
And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

Mark 10:21
Jesus, looking at [at the man with many possessions], loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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