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.

Who Can Heal Us?--Oct. 21, 2015


When our ruin is vast as the sea, we ask,
"Who can heal us, O God?" Remind us
how people conspired against Jesus,
to destroy him. Yet by awesome
deeds you answered by
delivering him.

Thanks be to you,
the hope of all the ends
of the earth and of the farthest
seas, for through our Lord Jesus
Christ, you give us the victory.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 65; 147:1-11; 125; 91
Lam. 2:8-15
1 Cor. 15:51-58
Matt.12:1-14

Selected Verses
Ps. 65:5
By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
          O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
          and of the farthest seas. 

Lam. 2:13c
For vast as the sea is your ruin;
          who can heal you?

1 Cor. 15:57
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matt. 12:14
But the Pharisees went out and conspired against [Jesus], how to destroy him.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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