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.

For Unity in Mind and Purpose--March 7, 2022


Your hands have made and fashioned me, 

but not only me—all of your children.

 

Help me to understand that your love for others 

does not mean that you love me any less.

 

John was able to subordinate himself to Jesus;

he was not jealous over losing authority.

 

May all who worship you live in peace,

united in one mind and purpose.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 119:73-80; 145; 121; 6

Gen. 37:1-11

1 Cor. 1:1-19

Mark 1:1-13

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 119:73

Your hands have made and fashioned me;
          give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

 

Gen. 37:4

But when [Joseph’s] brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.

 

1 Cor. 1:10

Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose. 

 

Mark 1:1-13

[John] proclaimed, “The one who is more powerful than I is coming after me; I am not worthy to stoop down and untie the thong of his sandals.  …”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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