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.

That Stones Need Not Shout--Nov. 27, 2020

 

O King over all the earth you have created, 

fill us with joy and peace in believing,

that by the power of the Holy Spirit

we may abound in joyful hope.

 

May all who seek you 

rejoice and be glad in you,

overflowing in hope and praise,

so stones have no need to shout out. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 148; 25; 40

Zech. 14:1-11

Rom. 15:7-13

Luke 19:28-40

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 40:16a

But may all who seek you
          rejoice and be glad in you…

 

Zech. 14:9

And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and his name one.

 

Rom. 15:13

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

Luke 19:39-40

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to [Jesus], “Teacher, order your disciples to stop.”  He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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