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.

No Matter the Cost--June 29, 2020


God Most High, we cry to you.
By your grace, may sin
have no dominion over us.

No matter how high the cost
or how many people grow angry,
we pray you, fulfill your purpose for us.

Lectionary Readings
Ps. 57; 145; 85; 47
Num. 22:1-21
Rom. 6:12-23
Matt. 21:12-22

Selected Verses
Ps. 57:2
 I cry to God Most High,
          to God who fulfills his purpose for me.

Num. 22:18
But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Although Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the LORD my God, to do less or more.  …”

Rom. 6:14
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Matt. 21:15
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that [Jesus] did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became angry…
Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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