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 Loaves and Fishes--March 15, 2021


Gracious God, just in all your ways 

and kind in all your doings, 

you have raised Christ from the dead

that we may bear fruit for you.

 

We cannot make gods for ourselves,

for we are only mortals,

but you take our loaves and fishes

and do miracles with them.

 

Lectionary Readings

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

Jer. 16:1-21

Rom. 7:1-12

John 6:1-15

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 145:17

The LORD is just in all his ways,
          and kind in all his doings.

 

Jer. 16:20

Can mortals make for themselves gods?
          Such are no gods!

 

Rom. 7:4

In the same way, my friends, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.

 

John 6:8-9

One of [Jesus’] disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish.  But what are they among so many people?”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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