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.

Dependent on God and Each Other---March 1, 2021


Your hands have made and fashioned us, 

O God, and you have sent us to reap 

that for which we did not labor.

 

You watch over your Word, Lord;

give us understanding to learn and obey it,

encouraging one another by each other’s faith.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6

Jer. 1:11-19

Rom. 1:1-15

John 4:27-42

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 119:73

Your hands have made and fashioned me;
          give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

 

Jer. 1:12

Then the LORD said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”

 

Rom. 1:12

…or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine. 

 

John 4:38

“…I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor.  Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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