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.

Holy God--Jan. 23, 2018


Lord our God, you are holy,
and your care for us is unending.
Christ offered up himself for our sake;
How dare we ask what you will give us?
Purify our conscience from dead works.

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

Selected Verses
Ps. 99:9
Extol the LORD our God,
          and worship at his holy mountain;
          for the LORD our God is holy.

Gen. 15:2
But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?" 

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 5:16-17
Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath.  But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working." 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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