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.

Faithful to the Truth--April 24, 2021

 

Loving God, you make us glad by your work;

at the works of your hands we sing for joy.

You deliver and rescue; you work signs 

and wonders in heaven and in earth.

 

You sent Jesus, who calls us 

to repentance. Help us be

 faithful to the truth and

walk in his truth.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 92; 149; 23; 114

Dan. 6:16-28

3 John 1-15

Luke 5:27-39

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 92:4

For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work;
          at the works of your hands I sing for joy.

 

Dan. 6:27

“…[The God of Daniel] delivers and rescues, he works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth; for he has saved Daniel from the power of the lions.”  [King Darius, writing to all peoples and nations]

 

3 John 3

I was overjoyed when some of the friends arrived and testified to your faithfulness to the truth, namely how you walk in the truth. 

 

Luke 5:31-32

Jesus answered [the complainers], “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners to repentance.”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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