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.

The Love with which God Loved Jesus--March 5, 2022

[From March 8, 2014 archive]

 

You send, and you gather back--you are the Lord. 

You teach us the secret of being well-fed and 

of going hungry; the secret of having 

plenty and of being in need--

you are our faithful God. 

The love with which you 

loved Jesus, may it be in us, 

and he in us.  Into your hand we 

commit our spirit; you have redeemed us. 

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 43; 149; 31; 143

Ezek. 39:21-29

Phil. 4:10-20

John 17:20-26

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 31:5 

Into your hand I commit my spirit; 
          you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God. 

 

Ezek. 39:28 

Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God because I sent them into exile among the nations, and then gathered them into their own land.  I will leave none of them behind… 

 

Phil. 4:12 

I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty.  In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being well-fed and of going hungry, of having plenty and of being in need. 

 

John 17:26 

“…I made your name known to [those you have given me], and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”  [Jesus concludes his prayer for his disciples.]


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