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.

Who Deserves the Glory?--Nov. 7, 2020

 

You are high, O God, but you regard the lowly.

Renew us in your love and take away

all our haughty thoughts.

 

In our joy or in our sorrow,

in good times or bad,

honor and glory 

belong to you.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 104; 149; 138; 98

Zeph. 3:14-20

Rev. 18:1-14

Luke 14:1-11

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 138:6

For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly;
          but the haughty he perceives from far away.

 

Zeph. 3:17b

…[the LORD] will rejoice over you with gladness,
     he will renew you in his love…

 

Rev. 18:7

“…As [Babylon] glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so give her a like measure of torment and grief.  Since in her heart she says, ‘I rule as a queen; I am no widow, and I will never see grief…’”  [A voice from heaven]

 

Luke 14:7

When [Jesus] noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable.


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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