My dear one,
I love mornings (although the time change this weekend was a bit hard to swallow). I want to share quiet moments with you in the mornings! I picture us sitting in chairs by a fireplace, with hot coffee steaming from our mugs, as we read Scripture and pray together.
For several years, I have been using Robert Murray M'Cheyne's Bible reading schedule. As I read four chapters a day, this plan takes me through the New Testament and Psalms twice a year, and through the rest of the Bible once a year. I find it to be the perfect length and the perfect variety, for there within those four chapters is always something on which to center my time of reflection and prayer.
On Sunday evenings my pastor has been preaching through the Book of Psalms (what a precious collection of the psalmist's thoughts and prayers to the Lord!). I had a very interesting idea while he was preaching tonight, as my mind drifted to thoughts you, my dear one. I know of several couples who have read through the 150 psalms backwards as a countdown as they anticipate their wedding. But what if I used the psalms as a countdown right now, starting with Psalm 150 and believing that the Lord would bring you into my life before I reach Psalm 1?
Psalm 150:6 - "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!" As a musician, this concept of praising the Lord with my breath holds special significance for me. I send out a song of thanksgiving to God with every breath into my instrument.
"The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will exult over you with loud singing" (Zeph. 3:17).
My God loves music! Here's hoping you do too...
Waiting,
Me
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