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.

God and the Humble--March 8, 2022

[From March 3, 2020 archive]

 

You lead the humble in what is right

and teach the humble your way.

 

If I am proud of my wisdom, 

if I despise those who dream, 

or minds that are out of kilter,

I may be the most foolish of all. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 34; 146; 25; 91

Gen. 37:12-24

1 Cor. 1:20-31

Mark 1:14-28

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 25:9

[The LORD] leads the humble in what is right,
          and teaches the humble his way.

 

Gen. 37:19-20

[Joseph’s brothers] said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer.  Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits; then we shall say that a wild animal has devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.” 

 

1 Cor. 1:20b

Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 

 

Mark 1:23-24

Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?  Have you come to destroy us?  I know who you are, the Holy One of God.”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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