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.

Mercies Rain Down--April 27, 2022

[From April 22, 2020 archive]

 

You are our God, we are your people.

You heal our broken hearts,

you bind our wounds.

 

Your mercies rain down upon us 

and sometimes test us—

making us greedy.

 

Instead, fill us with joy and gratitude;

may the joy of Christ be in us,

to make our joy complete.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 99; 147:1-11; 9; 118

Exod. 15:22-16:10

1 Peter 2:1-10

John 15:1-11

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 147:3

[The LORD] heals the brokenhearted,
          and binds up their wounds.

 

Exod. 16:4

Then the LORD said to Moses, “I am going to rain bread from heaven for you, and each day the people shall go out and gather enough for that day.  In that way I will test them, whether they will follow my instruction or not.  …”

 

1 Peter 2:10

Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

 

John 15:11

“…I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.”  [Jesus, to his disciples]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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