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.

You Have Poured Out Your Spirit--Dec. 21, 2019



O Mighty One, you deliver the weak and the needy
when they call, the poor and those who have no helper.
Through Christ, you have poured out on us richly your Spirit,
your words and vision, filling the hungry with good things.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 90; 149; 80; 72
2 Sam. 7:1-17
Titus 2:11-3:8a
Luke 1:39-56

Selected Verses
Ps. 72:12-13
For [the king] delivers the needy when they call,
          the poor and those who have no helper.
He has pity on the weak and the needy,
          and saves the lives of the needy.

2 Sam. 7:17
In accordance with all these words and with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David.

Titus 3:6-7
This Spirit [God] poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 

Luke 1:53
[“…the Mighty One] has filled the hungry with good things,
          and sent the rich away empty.  …”  [Mary’s song]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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