Quiet Time : all good things must come to an end

I have finished the Psalms. Yes, all 150 of them. And what a blessing they were to read! :)

Seriously, my heart is overjoyed. I thank my God for His instruction and encouragement through His WORD!

I got behind on posting about my quiet times, but here are a few snippets:

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I will sigh and with all creation groan/As I wait for Hope to come for me*

Psalm 96:11-13 (KJV)

¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

¹²Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

¹³Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Ryrie Study Bible: All creation will flourish when the curse is reversed in the Millennium.

See Romans 8:22 (KJV)

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Psalm 98:7-8 (KJV)

⁷Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

⁸Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together

Ryrie Study Bible note: Nature will rejoice in its release when Christ rules in His millennial kingdom.

*lyrics from Brooke Frasers', "C.S. Lewis Song."

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Psalm 117 (KJV)

¹O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.

²For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

Ryrie Study Bible note: This shortest and middle chapter of the Bible is a hymn in its simplest form - a call to praise (v. 1) and the cause for that priase (v. 2).

Yep, only two verses, and isn't that cool!?!

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Psalm 119 (long, but awesome, did you expect any less?). The following verses really caught my eye:

⁶²At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.

⁶³I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.

⁶⁴The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.

⁶⁵Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O LORD, according unto thy word.

⁶⁶Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

⁶⁷Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

⁶⁸Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.

⁶⁹The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

⁷⁰Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.

⁷¹It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

⁷²The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.

and these three:

¹⁰³How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

¹³⁶Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.

¹⁷⁶I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

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And then there is the last verse of the last chapter:

Psalm 150:6 (KJV)

⁶Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

I didn't copy the note from my study Bible, but something about how appropriate that the last verse of the Psalms has to do with everything praising God!