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.

By Our Side--April 25, 2022

[From March 31, 2008 archive]

 

With you by their side,

the Israelites who fled from Pharaoh

walked on dry ground through the sea;

the raging waters did not go over them.

 

We bless your name:

by your mercy you have given us a new birth

into a living hope through Christ’s resurrection,

have given us an Advocate to be with us forever.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 97; 145; 124; 115

Exod. 14:21-31

1 Peter 1:1-12

John 14:1-17

 

Selected Verses 

Psalm 124:1, 5

If it had not been the LORD who was on our side

            —let Israel now say—

…then over us would have gone

            the raging waters.

 

Exodus 14:29

But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.

 

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!  By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…

 

John 14:16

“…And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.  …”  [Jesus, to the eleven]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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