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.

We Rejoice in You, Jesus--March 30, 2019


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Lord Jesus Christ, we rejoice in you;
send out your light and your truth,
that light and truth may lead us.

As a loin cloth clings to the loins,
may we cling to you, Jesus,
obedient from the heart
to your teaching.

Then your people will be for you
a name, a praise, and a glory.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143
Jer. 13:1-11
Rom. 6:12-23
John 8:47-59

Selected Verses
Ps. 43:3a
O send out your light and your truth;
          let them lead me

Jer. 13:11
For as the loincloth clings to one’s loins, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD, in order that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory.  But they would not listen.

Rom. 6:17
But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted…

John 8:56
"…Your ancestor Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day; he saw it and was glad.”  [Jesus, to his accusers]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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