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.

Take Our Hand, Lift Us Up--Jan. 13, 2021

Our soul waits for you, O God; 

you hold our right hand, saying 

“Do not fear, I will help you.”

 

You take our hand and lift us up,

for we are what you have made us,

created in Christ Jesus for good works,

which you prepared to be our way of life.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 89:1-18; 147:1-11; 1; 33

Isa. 41:1-16

Eph. 2:1-10

Mark 1:29-45

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 33:20

Our soul waits for the LORD;
          he is our help and shield.

 

Isa. 41:13

For I, the LORD your God,
          hold your right hand;
it is I who say to you, “Do not fear,
          I will help you.”

 

Eph. 2:10

For we are what [God] has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.

 

Mark 1:30-31

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told him about her at once.  He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up.  Then the fever left her, and she began to serve them.


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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