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.

Pure, Peaceable, Gentle, and Thankful--Nov. 18, 2020

 

You crown the year with your bounty, O God;

forbid that we should sniff at your largesse,

or fail to take the trouble to give thanks.

 

Fill us with your wisdom, which is pure, 

peaceable, gentle, willing to yield,

full of mercy and good fruits,

with no trace of partiality

or hint of hypocrisy. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 65; 147:1-11; 125; 91

Mal. 1:1, 6-14

James 3:13-4:12

Luke 17:11-19

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 65:11

You crown the year with your bounty;
          your wagon tracks overflow with richness.

 

Mal. 1:13a

“What a weariness this is,” you say, and you sniff at me, says the LORD of hosts. 

 

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

 

Luke 17:15-16

Then one of [the ten lepers], when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice.  He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him.  And he was a Samaritan. 


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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