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.

Whom to Trust--April 21, 2020


In whom shall we put our trust, our ultimate trust?
We cannot function without trusting people,
but only you, our God, can we trust
with our whole being.

God, you are our strength and our might,
through Christ we have come to trust in you.
He is in you, and we are in him, and he is in us.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 98; 146; 66; 116
Exod. 15:1-21
1 Peter 1:13-25
John 14:18-31

Selected Verses
Ps. 146:3
Do not put your trust in princes,
          in mortals, in whom there is no help.

Exod. 15:2
The LORD is my strength and my might, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. 

1 Peter 1:21
Through [Christ] you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God.

John 14:20
“…On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.  …”  [Jesus, to his disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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