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.

For Being Made Well--Jan. 9, 2021

O God you are king, robed in majesty.

Girded with strength, you need no helper, 

but for being made well, let us show gratitude

 with our love, faith, service, and patient endurance. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 46; 149; 27; 93

Isa. 63:1-5

Rev. 2:18-29

John 5:1-15

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 93:1a

The LORD is king, he is robed in majesty;
          the LORD is robed, he is girded with strength.

 

Isa. 63:5

“…I looked, but there was no helper;
     I stared, but there was no one to sustain me;
so my own arm brought me victory,
     and my wrath sustained me.  …”  [The LORD speaking]

 

Rev. 2:19a

“I know your works — your love, faith, service, and patient endurance.  …”  [Words of the Son of God, to church in Thyatira]

 

John 5:6

When Jesus saw [the man ill for 38 years] lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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