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.

My Heart and My Flesh Sing for Joy--July12, 2019



Parents show love for their children,
and you showed your love for Jesus.
Your Holy Spirit descended on him,
and later, through him, also on us,
even on we who are Gentiles.
We sing for joy to you,
O Living God.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 84; 148; 25; 40
1 Sam. 17:17-30
Acts 10:34-48
Mark 1:1-13

Selected Verses
Ps. 84:2
My soul longs, indeed it faints
          for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh sing for joy
          to the living God.

1 Sam. 17:17-18
Jesse said to his son David, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers; also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand.  See how your brothers fare, and bring some token from them.”

Acts 10:45
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles…

Mark 1:10-11
And just as [Jesus] was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens torn apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him.  And a voice came from heaven, “You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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