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.

Help in Our Suffering--May 30, 2019


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God of our salvation,
your hand was on Jesus.

Tested by his suffering,
he is able to help us in ours.

With us to the end of the age,
in him we escape from death.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 47; 147:12-20; 68; 113
Ezek. 1:1-14, 24-28b
Heb. 2:5-18
Matt. 28:16-20

Selected Verses
Ps. 68:20
Our God is a God of salvation,
          and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape from death.

Ezek. 1:3
…the word of the LORD came to the priest Ezekiel son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was on him there.

Heb. 2:18
Because he himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested.

Matt. 28:20
"…and teaching [all nations] to obey everything that I have commanded you.  And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."  [The Risen Jesus, to the eleven disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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