Some Thoughts from the Psalms

I was looking through my Bible and I love the way the Psalms looks. I have a Life Application Study Bible that I use for my devotions and I just recently started writing my own notes in the sides of the margin. I really don't care for study Bibles that much because to me they are all man's ideas and I don't like to rely on that. So I like to just study myself and use my Strong's Concordance(which I think is the best study tool there is).
So back to what I was saying before I put that little thought in there, I was looking over some of the notes that I put in Psalms as I go through it and I wanted to post some of the things I learned.

Ps.77:1,3,6,11
In verse one it tells us that the writer calls out to the Lord and He heard Him. Isn't it a blessing that we have the same God? We have the promise that He hears us. But in each one of the other verses I mentioned there is some form of the word remember. I was thinking to myself, when we are going through a rough time in our lives and we feel the Lord isn't hearing us or answering us we better sit down somewhere alone and remember the things that He HAS done for us. Think of who He really is and how He has changed your life.

Ps.79:5a
"How long, Lord?"
Wow! I think this comes from everyone of our hearts at some time or another. We become impatient with the Lord because our flesh wants something Now! We need to get it through our heads that it doesn't matter how much we want something now in our timing, God isn't going to let it happen until it is His timing. We must learn to wait.

Ps.63:1
"Oh God, thou art my God, early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water it."
David learned something that we need to learn too! He know that there was nothing in this world that could satisfy his soul like time with God. Why not do it in the morning? If you wake up in the morning most people want a drink and if you don't drink during the day you will become dehydrated and feel terrible. So it is with our time with Him. If we wait till later to spend time with Him we become spiritually dehydrated and feel like something is wrong. I know I have had times at school where things got all a wreck and my alarm didn't go off so my schedule(I really like those!) was messed up and I didn't have time to spend with the Lord like I normally do. And because I am used to reading His Word and spending time with Him early in the morning I couldn't figure out why I had this void and this strange feeling, like something wasn't quite right. Then in the afternoon I would remember that I hadn't finished my devotions so I would do them and the Lord would show me things in great abundance from His Word. Don't neglect your time with Him and do it early before you become spiritually "dehydrated".