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.

With All My Heart--March 26, 2021


Trouble is near; 

be not far from me, Jesus.

With all my heart, I seek you.

 

Lord, I hold you in awe.

Let me go with you, 

even to die.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 22; 148; 105; 130

Jer. 29:1-14

Rom. 11:13-24

John 11:1-27

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 22:11

Do not be far from me,
          for trouble is near
          and there is no one to help.

 

Jer. 29:13

When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart…  [The LORD, speaking through Jeremiah in a letter to the exiles]

 

Rom. 11:20b

So do not become proud, but stand in awe. 

 

John 11:16

Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow-disciples, “Let us also go, that we may die with [Jesus].”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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