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.

Only Human--June 5, 2019

God Most High,
give your people one heart, 
a heart of flesh, and not of stone,
and put your Spirit within us.

Many important people
would have desired to see and
to hear the news about Jesus, 
that he is King and Priest.
Remind us, we are 
only human.

Lectionary Readings 
Ps. 99; 147:11; 9; 118
Ezek. 11:14-25
Heb. 7:1-17
Luke10:17-24

Selected Verses 
Ps. 9:20
Put them in fear, O LORD;
          let the nations know that they are only human. Selah

Ezek. 11:19-20
I will give [the exiles] one heart, and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them.  Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 

Heb. 7:1-3
This “King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him”; and to him Abraham apportioned “one-tenth of everything.”  His name, in the first place, means “king of righteousness”; next he is also king of Salem, that is, “king of peace.”  Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

Luke10:24
“…For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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