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.

Abide in Us, O Christ--April 5, 2019


No one can separate us from your love, Jesus.
You shepherd the sheep of your pasture,
and you do not despise or abhor
the affliction of the afflicted.
Abide in us, O Christ,
that we may abide in you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130
Jer. 23:1-8
Rom. 8:28-39
John 6:52-59

Selected Verses
Ps. 22:24
For he did not despise or abhor
          the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me,
          but heard when I cried to him.

Jer. 23:4
I will raise up shepherds over [the sheep of my pasture] who will shepherd them, and they shall not fear any longer, or be dismayed, nor shall any be missing, says the LORD.

Rom. 8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?  Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

John 6:56
"…Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them.  …"  [Jesus, while teaching in the Capernaum synagogue]


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Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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