Davids Daily Dose

Category: Hope

  • A Trip Down the Stairs

    Heal me, Oh Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise Jeremiah 17:14 If you fall head-first down a flight of stairs, you’ll be in the hospital for a week and your friends will feel sorry for you. But take an emotional tumble, that FEELS…

  • Plane Perspective

    The righteousness of the blameless makes a straight way for them, but the unfaithful are trapped in their own wickedness. Proverbs 11:5 My friend Jim once took me up in his Cessna for a short flight. As we cruised over the tilled fields at 3500 feet, large round bales of hay on the ground looked…

  • The Terrifying Toad

    I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Philippians 4:13 It’s baby toad season here at my GPS location. Dozens of them have taken over the yard: hopping around when I water the flowers, jumping into the house through opened doors. The other day, my wife and I stopped by a local nursery…

  • Do What’s Needed

    While David was at Horesh in the Desert of Ziph, he learned that Saul had come out to take his life. And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him strength in God. 1 Samuel 23:15-16 One Spring evening in 1975, my family sat down to dinner–all but my oldest brother, who’d…

  • YRUMAD?

    Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door; it desires to have you, but you must master it. (Genesis 4:6-7 NIV) My…

  • Have you gotten to “When?”

    And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. (Job 42:10a) “If every Christian’s prayer was answered, ‘Yes’,” says the skeptic, “Who would benefit most, the Christian or the seemingly lost world?” Ouch! Come to think of it, looking from the outside in, Christianity COULD seem like a pretty self-centered religion. A…