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.

Lord Jesus, I Call on Your Name--Nov. 1, 2014


Lord Jesus, I will bless you as long as I live.
Make me ready to open the door as soon
as you knock, but do not let me be deceived
by the dragon that looks like a lamb.
(Who has ever escaped its endless cruelty?)
I lift up my hands, call on your name.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 63; 149; 125; 90
Nahum 3:8-19
Rev. 13:11-18
Luke 12:32-48

Selected Verses
Ps. 63:4
 So I will bless you as long as I live;
          I will lift up my hands and call on your name.

Nahum 3:19c
For who has ever escaped
     your endless cruelty?

Rev. 13:11
Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

Luke 12:35-36
"Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks.  …"  [Jesus to his disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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