The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
Sundays are for one thing. Getting lost in the love that made everything.
You can spend six days trying to solve the week. Sunday is the day you stop long enough to be reminded who is holding it.
There is one psalm that will do the whole job in about four minutes if you read it out loud.
C.H.E.W. with Me
C — Clarity — When God repeats, it is not because He forgets
Psalm 136 says “for his steadfast love endures forever” twenty-six times in a row (Psalm 136). Twenty-six. Once per verse. Every act of God, from creation to deliverance to daily bread, followed by the same refrain.
God does not repeat because He is unsure. He repeats because we are. He knows the human heart. He knows how quickly we hear a truth on Sunday and forget it by Tuesday. So He builds a psalm that will not let you finish it without saying His love outloud twenty-six times.
That is a gift. It is also a strategy. He is teaching you how to CHEW.
H — Hear — His love endures forever, twenty-six times
The verse I keep returning to is smaller. “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). You cannot obey the great command out of thin air. You have to receive first.
Which is why God gives us a psalm that makes us say it twenty-six times. He is not filling space. He is filling the human heart with the only fuel it can actually run on.
Try it right now if you have the room. Read Psalm 136 out loud. Do not skim it. Say the refrain every time. Notice what happens by verse fifteen. Something in your chest starts to settle.
Worth Sharing
“His love endures forever. He says it enough that you have to.”
— The Daily CHEW™
E — Exchange — Because it endures forever
Because His love endures forever, what stops being fragile in your week?
Because His love endures forever, the decision you have been putting off for a week is not going to collapse under Him.
Because His love endures forever, the trial you are inside of has an end that His love has already outlasted.
Because His love endures forever, the anxiety that ran your Thursday evening is not the voice with the last word.
That is what a Sunday of getting lost in this love produces. It is not less action next week. It is action that comes from someone who has finally heard the refrain long enough to trust it.
Because His love endures forever, what is one thing this week that you have been carrying as if it depended on you, that would look different if you carried it as already held?
W — Walk — A Sunday anchor
Anchor time for Sunday: your first cup of coffee. Read Psalm 136 out loud before you check anything else. Not silently. Out loud. Twenty-six times, the same refrain.
Then in the car, going to church or coming home, ask the CHEW Question. Because Your love endures forever, how does that change what I am walking into today?
You will not fix the week by 9 a.m. But you will have the refrain in your body when Monday arrives. And that is what CHEWing is: a truth said often enough that your heart finally believes what your head has known.
What is the anchor time on Sunday you could give to Psalm 136 out loud, so the refrain has landed before the week ever starts?
With you on the journey,
Ryan
CHEW on this today
Because His love endures forever, what is one thing you have been treating as fragile that is actually already held?
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