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 Did the Healing?--Jan. 26, 2016


Jesus our Savior, we put our trust in you,
not in mortals, in whom there is no help.

Purify our conscience from dead works,
so that we may worship the living God.

No more have we asked than we begin to
wonder, how can we know your answer?

Remind us how often you have healed us,
and we did not know who did the healing.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 54; 146; 28; 99
Gen. 15:1-11, 17-21
Heb. 9:1-14
John 5:1-18

Selected Verses
Ps. 146:3
Do not put your trust in princes,
          in mortals, in whom there is no help. 

Gen. 15:8
But [Abram] said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess [this land]?" 

Heb. 9:14
…how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!

John 5:13
Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. 
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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