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.

In You We Rejoice, O God--March 5, 2020


You have done great things for us, and we rejoice.
If you cause what we do to prosper in our hands,
that is no credit to us; the glory belongs to you,
for neither the one who plants nor the one who
waters is anything; only you give the growth.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 27; 147:12-20; 126; 102
Gen. 39:1-23
1 Cor. 2:14-3:15
Mark 2:1-12

Selected Verses
Ps. 126:3
The LORD has done great things for us,
          and we rejoiced.

Gen. 39:3
[Joseph’s] master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD caused all that he did to prosper in his hands. 

1 Cor. 3:7
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Mark 2:12
And [the paralytic] stood up, and immediately took the mat and went out before all of them; so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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