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.

Be with Our Mouths, O God--April 3, 2022

[From March 13, 2016 archive]

 

Let everything that breathes praise your name, 

O God; transform us and renew our minds, 

that we may discern your will--what is 

good and acceptable and perfect. 

 

Pray let us hear your words, dear Lord; 

then be with our mouths and teach 

us what we are to speak.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 84; 150; 42; 32

Exod. 3:16-4:12

Rom. 12:1-21

John 8:46-59

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 150:6 

Let everything that breathes praise the LORD! 
     Praise the LORD! 

 

Exod. 4:12 

“…Now go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you are to speak.”  [The LORD to Moses] 

 

Rom. 12:2 

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect. 

 

John 8:47a 

“…Whoever is from God hears the words of God. …”  [Jesus to his detractors]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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