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.

God Forsakes Not Those Who Seek Him--Jan. 2, 2019



You have not forsaken those who seek you,
O God; we put our trust in you.

Abram obeyed you,
leaving his home and kindred,
setting out for a place you would show him.

Jesus asks us to have trust like that of Abram,
trust that he is the Bread of Life,
that in him we will not
hunger or thirst.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 48; 147:1-11; 9; 29
Gen. 12:1-7
Heb.11:1-12
John 6:35-42, 48-51

Selected Verses
Ps. 9:10
And those who know your name put their trust in you,
          for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Gen. 12:1
Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.  …" 

Heb.11:8
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to set out for a place that he was to receive as an inheritance; and he set out, not knowing where he was going.

John 6:35
Jesus said to [the crowd who had followed him by boat to Capernaum], “I am the bread of life.  Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.  …"

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