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.

To Be Glad in God--Oct. 24, 2020

 

God, my Maker, I am glad in you, 

for you take pleasure in your people.

 

You desire to give us good gifts, 

even the gift of your Holy Spirit.

 

You do not lure us with sweet promises,

then dash our hope with bitter experience.

 

Therefore, I will look to you, wait for you,

rejoice in you, O God of my salvation.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 122; 149; 100; 63

Micah 7:1-7

Rev. 10:1-11

Luke 11:1-13

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 149:2, 4

Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
          let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.  …
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people;
          he adorns the humble with victory.

 

Micah 7:7

But as for me, I will look to the LORD,
     I will wait for the God of my salvation;
     my God will hear me.

 

Rev. 10:10

So I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it; it was sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

 

Luke 11:13

“…If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”  [Jesus, to his disciples]

Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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