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 the Inward Being, Truth--March 20, 2019


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O Holy One, you desire truth in the inward being,
which demands return to you with a whole heart,
not in pretense; one that does not judge others,
especially not for sins we ourselves commit.
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Where we fall short in this, make us well.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 5; 147:1-11; 27; 51
Jer. 3:6-18
Rom. 1:26-2:11
John 5:1-18

Selected Verses
Ps. 51:6
You desire truth in the inward being;
          therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 

Jer. 3:10
Yet for all this [Israel's] false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense, says the LORD.

Rom. 2:1
Therefore you have no excuse, whoever you are, when you judge others; for in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.

John 5:6
When Jesus saw [the man who had been ill 38 years] lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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