"Made from scratch daily" and other daily pressures

Does the “dailyness” of life ever make you weary, making you wish you could find the pause button on life’s remote control? Pressures mount, children grow up, expenses increase, debt threatens, minute details and “to do” lists continue to scream for attention… and sometimes we just want to unplug the phone, close our door, sit uninterrupted while we just do nothing…

David experienced those feelings and frustrations. If you look up daily in a concordance, you’ll find listed in Psalms these daily struggles as an eternal reminder to us of how painfully difficult daily life can be:

He described his heart as being filled daily with sorrow, of being reproached daily by those who despised him, of fighting daily with those who sought to destroy him, of facing the pain and conflict of enemies daily.

I can imagine that is why he wrote “Oh that I had the wings of a dove, I would fly away and be at rest…” (Psalm 55:6). Short of Calgon “taking us away”, or our miraculously growing wings like a dove, what are some secrets David discovered that can help us along the way as we face the difficulties and draining drudgery of our “dailyness”?

1.Worship--Ps 72:15—“prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall He be praised…”

2. Prayer-- Ps 86:3 –“Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily. “

3. Look to His promised blessings-- Ps 68:19—“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits…”


These secrets cut against our natural tendency when we are lost in the daily grind, but will be the very things God uses to restore us and refresh us in our daily difficulties.