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 Hand Was with Jesus--Dec. 23, 2014

  
God, our judge, or ruler, our king,
and the one who will save us:
we turn to you in our hearts,
to hear what you will speak.

Speak peace to your people;
speak to us through Jesus;
for your hand was with him.
Through him we worship you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 33; 146; 85; 94
Isa. 33:17-22
Rev. 22:6-11, 18-20
Luke 1:57-66

Selected Verses
Ps. 33; 146; 85:8
Let me hear what God the LORD will speak,
          for he will speak peace to his people,
          to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts.

Isa. 33:22
For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our ruler,
     the LORD is our king; he will save us.

Rev. 22:9
…but [the angel] said to me, "You must not do that!  I am a fellow servant with you and your comrades the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book.  Worship God!"

Luke 1:66
All who heard them pondered them and said, "What then will this child become?"  For, indeed, the hand of the Lord was with him.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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