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Daily Devotions for Busy Lives

Daily Devotions for Busy Lives

著者： Bart Leger
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You meant to spend time with God this morning. Then the day started without you. This daily devotional podcast gets you back to Him in 7 to 9 minutes. Each weekday, pastor and author Dr. Bart Leger opens Scripture with a true story from everyday life and one practical way to apply God's truth. Listeners call it quick and to the point, a bit of calm at the start of the day. Press play and start your day anchored in God's Word.© 2025 Daily Devotions for Busy Lives キリスト教 スピリチュアリティ 日次 聖職・福音主義
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  • When You Find Yourself Judging Other People

    When You Find Yourself Judging Other People
    2026/08/07
    We size people up in a second, then miss the story we can't see. Discover why Romans 14:4 says the person you're judging was never yours to judge, and how to catch yourself in the moment.You're standing in a checkout line, or scrolling a feed, and you catch yourself passing judgment on someone you've never met. The way they're handling their kids. The opinion they posted. In a second flat, you've tried them and moved on, and half the time you don't notice you did it until it's already done. The verdict feels like insight in the moment. Most of the time it's just a guess dressed up as knowing.This episode opens with Jason Wright, who stopped at the same convenience store every morning and decided he had the clerk figured out. Her name was Cheri. She rarely smiled and kept her answers short, and Jason wrote her off as unfriendly, a woman who probably hated her job. One morning he asked the manager why Cheri always seemed so down, and the manager stopped and looked at him.Paul asked the Romans a question that stops you cold when it's aimed at you. Romans 14:4 says, "Who are you to condemn someone else's servants? Their own master will judge whether they stand or fall. And with the Lord's help, they will stand and receive his approval." Every person you're tempted to size up belongs to somebody, and that somebody is God. When you pass judgment on a stranger, you pick up a gavel that belongs to the Judge of all the earth, and He never handed it to you.Notice how the verse ends. With the Lord's help, they will stand. Paul goes further than telling you to back off. He tells you what God is doing in the person you were writing off: working to help them stand. So while you were deciding they were a lost cause, their Master was on their side. There's mercy in that for you, too. You wouldn't want to be judged by a stranger's 10-second read of you on your worst morning, and neither would the person in front of you. Everybody you meet is dealing with something you can't see from where you're standing.That is exactly what Jason found out. The manager told him Cheri had lost both of her parents that year, within a few months of each other, after a lifetime of caring for them. The grouch he'd invented in his head was a daughter buried in grief, and he'd been standing three feet from it every morning without knowing, because he'd already closed the case. That's what judgment does. It closes the case before you've heard any of the evidence.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why a snap verdict about a stranger is almost always missing the biggest part of the storyWhat Romans 14:4 says about who has the right to judge another personA simple move for the moment you catch yourself judging someoneThe people you're tempted to judge belong to God, not to you, and every one of them is dealing with something you can't see. Hand the gavel back.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/299Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe.
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  • What to Do When You're Afraid to Hope

    What to Do When You're Afraid to Hope
    2026/08/10
    After enough letdowns, you decide it's safer to expect nothing. If you don't get your hopes up, they can't come crashing down. You watched a prayer go unanswered. You trusted someone and they let you down. So now you hold everything at a careful distance, bracing for the next disappointment before it comes. Hope starts to feel like a setup.This episode opens with Kashia and Riley Palmer, who longed to be parents for years. After fertility treatments failed, they turned to adoption, and a call came about twin baby boys. They raised 45,000 dollars in two days and flew to meet their sons, only to have a nurse meet them at the hospital door. The birth mother had changed her mind, and they flew home with empty arms and a fear a lot of us know: the fear of ever letting yourself hope again.Solomon named this ache 3,000 years ago. Proverbs 13:12 says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life." Solomon is naming something true. When you want something and the waiting stretches on, it wears on you and can leave a bruise that lasts for years. God's Word doesn't pretend that away. But look at the second half of the verse. A dream fulfilled is a tree of life, the kind that grows and shelters. The problem was never hope itself. The problem is where we aim it.When you pin all your hope on one outcome, one answer arriving by a certain date, you're betting your heart on something that might not come. God is asking you to hope in Him, not just in the thing you want from Him. Hoping in an outcome is fragile, because outcomes can fall through. Hoping in God is sure, because He doesn't. He may not give you the exact thing on your timeline, but He has promised never to leave you empty.That is the hope the Palmers finally found. Months later another call came, this time a baby girl. Their hands were up, and they knew they could not guarantee the outcome. That part belonged to God. Scared and hoping anyway, they flew to meet their daughter, and the birth mother looked at them and said, "You're here. You're really here." They came home a family. They didn't hope less the second time. They hoped scared, with their hope resting where it couldn't be crushed.BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:Why disappointment makes so many people quietly stop letting themselves hopeWhat Proverbs 13:12 says about the toll of hope deferred and the life a fulfilled hope bringsHow to keep hoping by aiming your hope at God instead of a single outcomeHope deferred makes the heart sick, but hope aimed at God won't leave you empty. Keep hoping, and aim it at Him.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/300Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe.
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  • What to Do When Nothing Is Wrong but You Feel Empty

    What to Do When Nothing Is Wrong but You Feel Empty
    2026/08/11
    A lot of Christians hit stretches where nothing is exactly wrong. The bills are paid. The family is functioning. You have plenty to be thankful for, and you are, and still you wake up with a dryness you can't explain. You're moving through good days without tasting them. There's no crisis to point to and no obvious hole to fill, which can be more confusing than an outright problem, because you can't even say what's the matter.This episode opens with Ann Voskamp, who ran a family farm, was raising a houseful of kids, and loved God. By every outward measure she was fine. And still, most mornings, she woke up with a hollow feeling she couldn't explain, thankful on paper and empty inside, unable to fix it. Then a friend gave her a strange little dare.God described this exact condition through Jeremiah. Jeremiah 2:13 says God's people did two evil things: they abandoned Him, the fountain of living water, and they dug for themselves cracked cisterns that could hold no water at all. A cistern is a hole you carve out to store water you've hauled in from somewhere else. These were cracked, so the water leaked out as fast as it went in. God's people traded a spring that flows on its own for a leaky tank they had to keep refilling.That is how emptiness shows up in a comfortable life. You are still drinking, just not from the fountain. You pull little sips of life from your work and your screens, from the next thing that needs you. None of those are evil, but they cannot hold water. They give you a swallow and leave you thirsty again by morning, until you feel hollow in the middle of a life that looks full. The answer is to go back to the source. Working your cisterns will only wear you out, because they were never going to hold. Ordinary time with God, unhurried, with your Bible open and your phone away, is the thing that refills a soul, and there is no substitute for it.That is what Ann discovered. Her friend dared her to write out 1,000 small gifts she'd been walking past, and as she paid attention, gift by gift, she noticed God right there in the dishwater and the noise. Nothing about her life changed. The dryness did. The fountain had been within reach the whole time, and she had simply stopped drinking from it.**BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:**- Why you can feel empty even when your life is stable and nothing is wrong- What Jeremiah 2:13 reveals about the cracked cisterns we dig instead of drinking from God- A simple way to get back to the fountain and let God refill your soulWhen the soul runs dry in a life that looks full, the answer is to go back to the fountain: ordinary time with the God who never runs out.Share This Episode:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/301Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemailWant to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/Rate and Reviewhttps://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/Connect with BartFacebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylivesWebsite: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.comFeeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus here: https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/subscribe.
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