The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
The first question you open a meeting with is a confession — of who you actually trust with the outcome.
“Where are we on the numbers?” That is a control question. “What is the team stuck on?” That is a fear question. “Who dropped the ball?” That is a blame question.
None of these are wrong to ask. But they reveal the belief underneath: I am the one who has to hold this together.
Proverbs 3:5–6 sits at the beginning of a senior executive’s morning not as a nice platitude but as a diagnostic. What does the first question in today’s meeting confess about what you actually trust?
C.H.E.W. with Me
C — Clarity — He makes paths straight
Proverbs 3:5–6 is a single movement in two beats. The first beat: trust in the LORD with all your heart — not with your strategy, not with your experience, with your heart. The second beat: do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him. Then the promise: He will make straight your paths.
The text does not say God will make straight the paths of those who figure it out correctly. It says He makes straight the paths of those who trust Him — who acknowledge Him in all their ways, including the meeting that starts in eight minutes.
The question the text is asking: whose intelligence is the load-bearing element in your decision-making?
H — Hear
Today’s verse to hear:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
(Proverbs 3:5–6 ESV)
This is not a verse about smarter strategy. It is a Father telling you who owns the path. Stay with what He says: He makes it straight — not your understanding, not your leverage. Trust means walking in acknowledging that the outcome is already His to arrange.
He is the one who makes paths straight. He does not make them straight because you are smart enough or diligent enough. He makes them straight because He is the one who owns the outcomes. He has named Himself the straightener of paths — that is not your job title.
He is for you in the room before you walk in. He has already been there. What He asks is not your best strategy. He asks that you acknowledge Him — which means you walk in knowing who actually holds the result.
Worth Sharing
“God owns the outcome you keep grasping for.”
— The Daily CHEW™
E — Exchange — Ask what serves, not what controls
The executive who believes the outcome is his to control opens every meeting trying to retrieve information that will let him manage the future. The pace is faster than it needs to be. The listening is shallower than it could be.
The executive who believes God owns the outcome can open a meeting with a different question. Not a control question — a presence question. Not “where are the gaps?” but “what does this team actually need from me today?”
Sit with this today: Because God owns the outcome — what question can I open with that serves the room instead of retrieving my control?
When I really believed God’s love meant He owned the outcome and my job was acknowledgment not control, I stopped opening meetings like an audit. I walked in curious instead of defended.
W — Walk — One acknowledgment before the meeting
Before your first meeting today — ten seconds, in the hallway or the elevator — say this: You own this outcome. I am here to acknowledge You, not manage You.
Then walk in and ask the one question that serves the people in the room, not the one that retrieves your control.
One meeting. One acknowledgment. One question that serves instead of retrieves. Then close the page.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
CHEW on this today
If God straightens the paths of those who trust Him, what leads you to open with control?
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