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.

Truth Be Known--Dec. 30, 2019



O God, you are near to all who call on you in truth;
may truth be in my mouth when I call.
May I walk in your truth, and may I be faithful to it;
may I know your truth, and trust in you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 93; 145; 89:1-18; 89:19-52
1 Kings 17:17-24
3 John 1-15
John 4:46-54

Selected Verses
Ps. 145:18
The LORD is near to all who call on him,
          to all who call on him in truth.

1 Kings 17:24
So the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the word of the LORD in your mouth is truth.”

3 John 3-4
I was overjoyed when some of the friends arrived and testified to your faithfulness to the truth, namely how you walk in the truth.  I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my children are walking in the truth.

John 4:50b
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way.

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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