The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
The people you love most tonight will meet whoever walks through that door. Not the version of you your team saw. The version you brought home in the car.
There are about twenty seconds between the moment your car door closes and the moment your front door opens. Most Christian professionals I know do not use them.
That is where the whole evening is decided.
C.H.E.W. with Me
C — Clarity — Who you meet is who you brought
Colossians says it plainly. “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (Colossians 3:14). Notice the verb. Put on. Love is not something you find on the other side of the door. It is something you put on before you cross it.
The reason so many Christian high performers walk into their homes tense is not because they are bad husbands, wives, or parents. It is because they crossed the threshold in whatever their day put on them. Meetings. Decisions. Anxious loops. Whatever was closest.
What if the threshold itself was a place where you got clothed in something else first?
H — Hear — Put on love
The verse that keeps hitting me on the way home is John 17:23. “Loved them even as you loved me” (John 17:23). Jesus prayed that for you before you had a family, before you had a career, before you had a hard day.
The Father loves you as much as He loves Jesus. That is what is true about you at the threshold. Not what your inbox said. Not what your calendar said. Not what any late-day catastrophizing tried to convince you of on the drive.
You are loved as much as He loves Jesus. So the person crossing that door is already secure. The evening does not have to prove it.
Worth Sharing
“The twenty seconds are not a transition. They are an invitation.”
— The Daily CHEW™
E — Exchange — Because His love has landed
This is where CHEWing does its slow work. Because His love is what it is, how does that change what happens in the next twenty seconds?
Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, I do not need my family to meet me halfway before I can be warm with them.
Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, the tension of the day does not get to be the tone of the evening.
Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, I can lay down the version of me that felt overworked and pick up the version of me that has already been clothed.
That is not performance. That is putting on what is already true and letting it land before the door opens.
Because God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, what version of you does your family need to meet tonight instead of the version the day tried to hand them?
W — Walk — The threshold as your anchor
The Walk this week is not a new spiritual discipline. It is anchor times. Attach the verse to something you are already doing.
Before you turn off the engine, say the verse. “Loved them even as you loved me.” Then ask the question. Because He loves me as much as He loves Jesus, how does that shape the next twenty seconds?
Some days you will stay in it the whole walk to the door. Some days it will land in one second. Either way, the verse has to run through you between where you are and where you are going.
Sanctification is not a straight line. Paul knew it. “For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing” (Romans 7:19). But the more the verse ran in the twenty seconds, the less my flesh got to write the first line of the evening.
Which threshold in your day, work, home, meeting, kitchen, could you make the anchor time this week for the verse you already carry?
With you on the journey,
Ryan
CHEW on this today
Because God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, who would your family meet if you crossed that threshold as loved instead of loaded?
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