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.

Obedient to the Point of Death on a Cross--Sept. 9, 2015


Lord God, you fashion our hearts
and you observe all our deeds.
We kneel and pay homage to
the one who humbled himself
and was obedient to the point
of death--even death on a cross.
Your word in his mouth was truth.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33
1 Kings 17:1-24
Phil. 2:1-11
Matt. 2:1-12

Selected Verses
Ps. 33:15
…[the LORD] who fashions the hearts of them all,
          and observes all their deeds. 

1 Kings 17:24
So the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”

Phil. 2:7b-8
And being found in human form, 
            [Christ Jesus] humbled himself
            and became obedient to the point of death--
            even death on a cross.

Matt. 2:11a
On entering the house, [the wise men] saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. 
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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