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.

Our Maker, Our King--March 19, 2022

[From March 6, 2010 archive]

 

We rejoice in you, for you are our King;

we are glad in you, for you are our Maker.

 

You have called us to life and assigned us our role—

given  us five-fold portions like Joseph gave Benjamin.

 

Were we to proclaim how much you have

done for us, everyone would be amazed.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43, 149, 31, 143

Gen. 43:16-34

1 Cor. 7: 10-24

Mark 5:1-20

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 149:2

Let Israel be glad in its Maker;

            let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

 

Gen. 43:34

Portions were taken to them from Joseph’s table, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs.  So they drank and were merry with him.

 

1 Cor. 7:17a

However that may be, let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you.

 

Mark 5:20

And [the man who had been possessed] went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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