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.

How Can We Know the Way?--Apr. 6, 2015


Lord Jesus, you went down to the Pit; its bars closed over you,
but before the Lord of all the earth those bars melted like wax.
God freed you from death; it was impossible for you to be held
in its power. But how can we know the way to the place where
you have gone? We follow you--the way, the truth, and the life.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 97; 145; 124; 115
Jonah 2:1-10
Acts 2:14, 22-32
John 14:1-14

Selected Verses
Ps. 97:5
The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
          before the Lord of all the earth.

Jonah 2:6b-c
I went down to the land
          whose bars closed upon me forever;
yet you brought up my life from the Pit,
          O LORD my God. 

Acts 2:24
But God raised [Jesus] up, having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.

John 14:5-6
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going.  How can we know the way?”  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.  …"
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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