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.

You Dwell Among Your People--July 5, 2022

[From July 8, 2008 archive]

 

We must not defile the land in which we live;

you dwell among your people.

 

We must practice justice, mercy, and faith;

you dwell among your people.

 

Pursuers will not tear us apart or drag us away;

you dwell among your people.

 

Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ;

in him you dwell among your people.

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 12; 146; 36; 7

Numb. 35:1-3, 9-15, 30-34

Rom. 8:31-39

Matt. 23:13-26

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 7:2

…or like a lion [my pursuers] will tear me apart;

                         they will drag me away, with no one to rescue.

 

Numb. 35:34

You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I also dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the Israelites.

 

Rom. 8:35

Who will separate us from the love of Christ?  Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

 

Matt. 23:23c

“…It is [justice, mercy, and faith] you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.  …  ”  [Jesus, speaking of the scribes and Pharisees]


Posted by Elmer E. Ewing

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