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 Everlasting Love--April 29, 2021

 

God Most High, with an everlasting love

you have loved, continuously faithful.

 

In love you gave us Christ, in whom

the whole fullness of deity dwells;

may we grow into his fullness.

 

Fill our hearts with your 

everlasting love, fill them 

with abundance, and out of 

them may our mouths speak love.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 47; 147:12-20; 68; 113

Jer. 31:1-14

Col. 2:8-23

Luke 6:39-49

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 47:2

For the LORD, the Most High, is awesome,
          a great king over all the earth.

 

Jer. 31:3b

I have loved you with an everlasting love;
          therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

 

Col. 2:9-10

For in [Christ] the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have come to fullness in him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.

 

Luke 6:45

The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good, and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; for it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks.


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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