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 Return for My Rescue--Oct. 22, 2020

 

O God, I called to you in distress,

and you relieved my burden,

and you rescued me.

 

In your name, when woes come,

let me be moved with pity,

and stand strong in you,

and tend your flock.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 143; 147:12-20; 81; 116

Micah 5:1-4, 10-15

Rev. 9:1-12

Luke 10:25-37

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 81:6-7a

“I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
          your hands were freed from the basket.
In distress you called, and I rescued you…

 

Micah 5:4a

And he shall stand and feed his flock in the strength of the LORD,
     in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God.

 

Rev. 9:12

The first woe has passed.  There are still two woes to come.

 

Luke 10:6-7a

“…But a Samaritan while traveling came near [the injured man]; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity.  …”  [Jesus, telling a parable to a lawyer]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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