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.

Freedom and Healing--Feb. 27, 2022

[From March 2, 2014 archive]

 

Where your Spirit is, there is freedom; 

and there is healing in your wings, O God. 

Why should we want to avoid your presence? 

What profit to gain the world and lose ourselves? 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 103; 150; 117; 139

Mal. 4:1-6

2 Cor. 3:7-18

Luke 9:18-27

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 139:7 

Where can I go from your spirit? 
          Or where can I flee from your presence?

 

Mal. 4:2a 

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. 

 

2 Cor. 3:17 

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 

 

Luke 9:25 

“…What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose or forfeit themselves?  …”  [Jesus to his disciples]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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