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 My Treasure, Jesus--May 18, 2022

[From May 21, 2014 archive]

 

Be my treasure, Jesus, and my heart will be with you.

Make my heart so full of thanksgiving to you,

so full of thanks, there is no room left over for hate;

and I shall be at peace with all.

 

Lectionary Readings

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

Lev. 19:1-18

1 Thess. 5:12-28

Matt. 6:19-24

 

Selected Verses

Ps. 9:1 

I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart; 
          I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. 

 

Lev. 19:17a 

You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin…  [The LORD, speaking to the people through Moses] 

 

1 Thess. 5:13b 

Be at peace among yourselves. 

 

Matt. 6:21 

“…For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.  …”  [Jesus to the crowd on the mountain]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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