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.

Your Throne of Grace--April 3, 2021

 

Lord, to think of your suffering 

fills me with pity and remorse;

my heart within me is appalled,

and my spirit faints within me.

 

Set my mind on your Spirit

to approach your throne of grace 

and there find mercy, life, and peace.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Job 19:21-27a

Heb. 4:1-16

Rom. 8:1-11

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 143:4

Therefore my spirit faints within me;
          my heart within me is appalled.

 

Job 19:21a

Have pity on me, have pity on me,
          O you my friends…

 

Heb. 4:16

Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

 

Rom. 8:6

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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