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.

In Steadfast Love, God Has Rescued Us--April 8, 2018


God of steadfast love,
you have remembered us
 in our low estate and rescued us.
Sometimes we have only to keep still
and wait for you; at other times
we are to walk in the Way,
in the light of Jesus.
He will cleanse us
from all our sin,
and we will live in
fellowship with one another, 
for your steadfast love endures forever.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117
Exod. 14:5-22
1 John 1:1-7
John 14:1-7

Selected Verses
Ps. 136:23-24
It is [the LORD] who remembered us in our low estate,
          for his steadfast love endures forever;
and rescued us from our foes,
          for his steadfast love endures forever

Exod. 14:14
"…The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to keep still."  [Moses to the Israelites, when Pharaoh and his army were pursuing them]

1 John 1:7
…but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

John 14:4-6a
"…And you know the way to the place where I am going."  Thomas said to [Jesus], "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.  …"

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