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.

The Joy of Your Salvation--March 4, 2015


God of kindness and forbearance and patience,
may your kindness lead us to repentance.
Restore to us the joy of your salvation
and sustain in us a willing spirit,
that not in pretense, but with
whole hearts, we may
return to you and
be made well.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51
Jer. 3:6-18
Rom. 1:26-2:11
John 5:1-18

Selected Verses
Ps. 51:5
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
          and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Jer. 3:10
Yet for all this [Israel's] false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the LORD.

Rom. 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience?  Do you not realize that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

John 5:14
Later Jesus found [the man had been an invalid] in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well!  Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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