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.

Blessed Are the Eyes--May 29, 2022

[From May 28, 2006 archive]

 

Indeed you are a consuming fire,

but your steadfast love endures forever.

 

Blessed are the eyes that have seen you;

and blessed are those whose misery you have seen,

whose cry against their oppressors you have heard,

whose sufferings you have known,

and whom you have led through the wilderness.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 93; 150; 136; 117

Exod. 3:1-12

Heb. 12:18-29

Luke 10:17-24

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 136:16

…who led his people through the wilderness,

            for his steadfast love endures forever…

 

Exod. 3:7

Then the LORD said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters.  Indeed, I know their sufferings…”

 

Heb. 12:29

…for indeed our God is a consuming fire.

 

Luke 10:23

Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!  …”


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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