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.

I Have Seen Your Works, O God--Jan. 16, 2020


God, these many years I have seen your works;
I do not need to put you to the test,
or to see still greater things,
to invoke your name.

All my hopes
are in you.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 97; 147:12-20; 16; 62
Gen. 4:17-26
Heb. 3:1-11
John 1:43-51

Selected Verses
Ps. 62:5
For God alone my soul waits in silence,
          for my hope is from him.

Gen. 4:26b
At that time people began to invoke the name of the LORD.

Heb. 3:7b-10a
“Today, if you hear [God’s] voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
as on the day of testing in the wilderness,
where your ancestors put me to the test,
though they had seen my works for forty years.  …”

John 1:50
Jesus answered [Nathanael], “Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree?  You will see greater things than these.” 

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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