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.

Who Am I to Find Fault?--April 8, 2019


So quick am I to find fault, dear God;
so sure that my judgments are right,
so eager to jump to conclusions
about the failings of others--
who am I to question you?

In faithfulness you have humbled me,
and I know that your judgments are right.
Give me a heart to know you as my God,
a whole heart to return to you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6
Jer. 24:1-10
Rom. 9:19-33
John 9:1-17

Selected Verses
Ps. 119:75
 I know, O LORD, that your judgments are right,
          and that in faithfulness you have humbled me. 

Jer. 24:7
I will give [the exiles from Judah] a heart to know that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Rom. 9:19-20a
You will say to me then, "Why then does he still find fault?  For who can resist his will?"  But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God?

John 9:2
[Jesus'] disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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