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.

In Holy Splendor--May 14, 2021

 

Holy One, we have come to worship you,

but trembling fall before you.

 

You bid us to stand up on our feet

 and approach the throne of grace

 

so that we may receive mercy 

and find grace to help in time of need.

 

And then we hear a voice that tells us

to listen to your Chosen One.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138

Ezek. 1:28-3:3

Heb. 4:14-5:6

Luke 9:28-36

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 96:9

Worship the LORD in holy splendor;
          tremble before him, all the earth.

 

Ezek. 1:28b-2.1

When I saw [the likeness of the glory of the LORD], I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of someone speaking.  He said to me: O mortal, stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you. 

 

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.

 

Luke 9:35

Then from the cloud came a voice that said, “This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!” 


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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