The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You are sitting on a park bench on a Wednesday morning — the kind of pause you almost never give yourself — and the truth lands quietly: the reason your output feels scattered is not your calendar. It is that you said yes to too many good things you were never the one called to master. Most Christian executives carry a private belief that if they could just study one more thing, sharpen one more skill, take on one more project, the mastery would arrive. It rarely does.
This is coming to you on my 57th birthday — 34 of those years in the work of coaching Christian leaders. I read Essentialism over a decade ago and immediately recognized the principle — and still defaulted back to taking on what I could figure out instead of what I was uniquely called to master. The shift came last year in my PhD work, when John 17:23 — “that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me” — moved from a verse I knew to a reality I had to build my life around. The Father loves Christian Believers with the same love He has for His Son. If that lands at a heart level — not just in our heads — it transforms how we lead, love, and work. We heal faster. We grow faster. We gain strategic clarity faster. So much of what ails Christian executives is the silent pursuit of false loves that cannot do what only His love can.
Scripture reveals that God’s love is the one thing worth mastering — and over the last year I have grown more than in the previous five, with more durable solidness in the middle of bigger challenges. The productivity lesson 34 years has finally beaten into me is this: stop saying yes to what you can figure out. Say yes only to what your one calling makes you uniquely able to do. For me, that one thing is getting God’s love from head to heart for Christian leaders. Everything else now serves that.
Here is the question for this Wednesday: If I really believed God loves me with the same love He has for His Son, how would that change the one thing I say yes to this week — and the three things I finally say no to?
One move before Thursday: Write down the one calling God has uniquely shaped you to master, and the next opportunity on your calendar that does not serve it. Decline that opportunity today. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
If today’s CHEW named something real, The CHEW Hub has free assessments and tools to help you go deeper.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
If you had to put this into one sentence for today, what would you say God is inviting you to rest in or return to?
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