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.

Perfect Your Love in Us--Dec. 25, 2020


You have done marvelous things, O God; 

they make us sing and rejoice.

 

You have sent us one to dwell in our midst;

he gives the Spirit without measure.

 

Live in us, and perfect your love in us, 

and we will love one another.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 2; 148; 98; 96

Zech. 2:10-13

1 John 4:7-16

John 3:31-36

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 98:1a

O sing to the LORD a new song,
          for he has done marvelous things.

 

Zech. 2:10

Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion!  For lo, I will come and dwell in your midst, says the LORD.

 

1 John 4:12-13

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.  By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

 

John 3:34

He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he gives the Spirit without measure.


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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