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.

To You We Lift Up Our Soul--March 27, 2021

 

Lord, from you and through you 

and to you are all things. To you 

be the glory forever. 

 

In you we put our trust. 

Forgive our iniquity, Jesus,

and remember our sin no more.

 

Teach us the way we should go, 

for to you we lift up our soul. 

 

You wept for Lazarus;

we weep for you.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Jer. 31:27-34

Rom. 11:25-36

John 11:28-44

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 143:8

Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
          for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
          for to you I lift up my soul.

 

Jer. 31:34

No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the LORD,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

 

Rom. 11:36

For from [God] and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever.  Amen.

 

John 11:35-36

Jesus began to weep.  So the Jews said, “See how he loved [Lazarus]!” 


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