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.

God, Far and Yet Near--Feb. 15, 2021


You are our God, you alone; in the beginning

you founded the earth and the heavens. 

 

And in the beginning was the Word,

and the Word was with you,

and the Word was you.

 

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

and your dominion endures forever.

 

You are near to all who call on you,

to all who call on you in truth.

 

God of all time and space, 

and yet so near to us,

our amazing God.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 5; 145; 82; 29

Deut. 6:1-15

Heb. 1:1-14

John 1:1-18

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 145:13a, 18

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
          and your dominion endures throughout all generations.  …

The Lord is near to all who call on him,
          to all who call on him in truth.

 

Deut. 6:4

Hear, O Israel: The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. 

 

Heb. 1:10

And,
“In the beginning, Lord, you founded the earth,
          and the heavens are the work of your hands…”

 

John 1:1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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