The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
He is the God whose hands were already open before any Christian Believer earned a paycheck, signed a deal, or paid a bill. Before you knew how to multiply a resource, He had already multiplied galaxies and given them away as gift. Before you ever earned a dollar, He had already secured your deepest wealth at the cross of His Son — wealth no market can touch, no shortfall can revoke, no quarter can adjust. He is the God who gives first, the God whose generosity is the reason every steward has anything to steward at all. This is the God who meets the Christian high performer who has just spent a Saturday wrestling with five money beliefs and needs to remember whose hands have been open the whole time.
What Is God Like When I Am Worried About Money?
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” — Matthew 7:11, ESV. God is not stingy. God is not anxious about what He has. God is not worried about whether He has enough to give. Scripture reveals a Father who delights to give good gifts to His children — and Jesus’ argument is “how much more.” If imperfect human fathers can give well, how much more will the perfect Father who owns the cattle on a thousand hills give to those who belong to Him in Christ.
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.” — 2 Corinthians 8:9, ESV. Scripture reveals the generosity that secured every Believer’s deepest wealth — and it was given before any of us could earn a dollar, contribute a tithe, or build a portfolio. The Owner became poor so the steward could be made rich. The hands of God were open before we knew what hands were for. The cross was the prior generosity that makes every later generosity possible.
He is the God who gives first. He is the God whose love has never depended on our balance sheet. He is the God whose Son became poor before we even understood what He was doing, so that the wealth He secured would be a gift no market downturn could revoke and no successful quarter could improve. Worship Him for this today — not for what He may give next, but for what He has already given in Christ.
Clarity: We forget that God’s generosity is prior, that His hands were open before we ever earned a dollar — and we worship our portfolios more easily than we worship the Owner who entrusted them to us.
Hear: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” — James 1:17, ESV. Scripture reveals that every good gift in the steward’s hand — every dollar, every breath, every relationship, every capacity — comes down from the Father whose generosity does not flicker. He has been giving the whole time.
Exchange: If I really believed God’s love is so generous that He gave the highest gift before I ever earned the lowest dollar, how would that change the way I worship and rest in Him this morning?
Walk: Sit in His presence for 60 seconds. Open your hands palms-up in your lap. Say aloud, slowly: “You were generous to me before I ever earned a dollar. You are generous to me now. You will be generous to me when this season ends.” Worship Him as the Father whose hands have been open the entire time. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
Worship Response — Turn Gratitude into Worship
Father, I worship You as the God who was generous to me before I ever earned a dollar. Before any quarter closed, before any deal landed, before any line item in any budget, You had already given the highest gift in Christ. You are the Father of lights from whom every good gift comes down without variation or shadow. You are the Owner whose hands have been open the whole time. Thank You that the wealth Your Son secured at the cross is fixed, irreversible, and given freely. Today I receive Your generosity not as a future hope but as a present reality, and I worship You for being the God who gives first and gives forever. In Christ’s name, amen.
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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