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.

The Gospel of Peace--Dec. 18, 2020


Lead me to your light, O God; 

apart from you I have no good.

 

You proclaim the gospel of peace;

fill me with the knowledge of you,

 

for on your holy mountain 

 no one will hurt or destroy.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 102; 148; 130; 16

Isa. 11:1-9

Eph. 6:10-20

John 3:16-21

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 16:2

 I say to the LORD, “You are my Lord;
          I have no good apart from you.”

 

Isa. 11:9

They will not hurt or destroy
     on all my holy mountain;
for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD
     as the waters cover the sea.

 

Eph. 6:15

As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace.

 

John 3:17

“…But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”  [Jesus, to Nicodemus]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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