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.

We Cast Our Anxiety on God--April 25, 2021

[From May 12, 2019 archive]

 

How great your steadfast love is toward us;

your faithfulness, O God, endures forever.

True, sometimes winds blow, rains fall, 

floods come, and houses collapse;

the wicked and the righteous

are swept away together.

Yet we cast our anxiety 

on you, knowing that 

you care for everyone.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117

Gen. 18:22-33

1 Peter 5:1-11

Matt. 7:15-29

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 117:2a

For great is his steadfast love toward us, 
          and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. 

 

Gen. 18:23

Then Abraham came near [the LORD] and said, “Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?  …” 

 

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on [God], because he cares for you.

 

Matt. 7:27

“…The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell--and great was its fall!”  [Jesus, to the crowds]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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