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.

Looking for Truth--March 5, 2021

 

Do not your eyes look for truth, O God?

Although everyone is a liar, 

you remember your holy promise;

your testimony is true.

 

Help me seek your presence continually,

seeking you and your strength, 

that I, too, may be true.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 105:4

Jer. 5:1-9

Rom. 2:25-3:18

John 5:30-47

 

Selected Verses 

 Ps. 105:4, 42

Seek the LORD and his strength;
          seek his presence continually.  …

For he remembered his holy promise,
          and Abraham, his servant.

 

Jer. 5:3a

O LORD, do your eyes not look for truth?

 

Rom. 3:4

By no means!  Although everyone is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written,
     “So that you may be justified in your words,
          and prevail in your judging.”

 

John 5:32

“There is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that his testimony to me is true.  …”  [Jesus, to his persecutors]  


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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