The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You are at the coffee shop Wednesday morning with a planner open, a calculator nearby, and the realization landing slow: the most productive move on your calendar this week is the one quietly costing you money. The third dinner of the week with a prospect you already know is not the right fit. The “yes” you said to a project that pays well but eats the focus your highest-yield work needs. The hour of email triage that displaces the 90-minute strategic block where every real dollar of next quarter actually gets earned. Most Christian high performers run on the default that more output equals more income. Saturday’s anchor named five money beliefs that quietly run the life. This Wednesday names the productivity reflex that quietly costs the money.
The productive move you cannot see costing you money is the one that fills your hours without serving your call. Hours are not the same as yield. Motion is not the same as stewardship.
“Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.” — Ephesians 5:15–16, ESV. God does not measure your productivity by how full your week looked. Scripture reveals that wisdom is the kind of time you spend, not the amount — and Christ Himself, the most productive person who ever lived, said no to good work He had not been sent to do. Trust that God’s love is wise enough to redirect the hour your reflex would have filled.
If I really believed God’s love is wise enough to direct my hours toward the work He has actually called me to — and that the work He calls me to produces better fruit than the work I am tempted to manufacture — how would that change the most “productive” thing on my calendar this Wednesday?
Look at the next three meetings or work blocks on your schedule. Ask one question of each: “Is this serving the work God called me to, or filling the hour my reflex demanded?” If one fails the test, cancel it, delegate it, or postpone it before the day ends. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
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