The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You know this tension: a part of you quietly wonders if letting God’s love really sink from head to heart would soften your edge, dull your ambition, or slow your performance in a high‑pressure, results‑driven environment. Yet another part of you longs to lead from a steadier place than quarterly numbers, client reactions, or team dynamics. In one CHEW group I lead, I’ve watched a driven Christian leader discover that as he learns to operate from a settled identity in Christ’s love, his outcomes are actually improving, his stress is decreasing, and his decision‑making is clearer and more disciplined. Rootedness in God’s love does not remove urgency or excellence; it sharpens focus, steadies risk appetite, and frees leaders to think more strategically because their worth is no longer riding on every outcome.
Confess
Lord, I admit I sometimes treat my edge and my results as if they are safer anchors than Your love in Jesus, and I fear that resting more deeply in Your love might make me less driven or less sharp.
Hear
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment” (Philippians 1:9). When God causes love to abound, He also grows wise discernment, so that your attention, analysis, and decisions are increasingly shaped by His steady, securing love in Christ rather than by fear or pressure.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is wise and securing, how would that change the way I pursue excellence and manage risk in my work this week? A leader might answer: “I would hold targets and opportunities more loosely before God, focus on faithfulness in analysis and counsel, and refuse to let fear of missing out or disappointing others drive my next decision.”
Walk (30–90 seconds)
Today, before you take one significant action—a major email, a recommendation, a hiring choice, a key yes or no—pause for 60 seconds, breathe, and quietly say, “Father, Your love in Jesus is my security; let that love sharpen my discernment in this decision.” Then make the decision as an act of worshipful stewardship, not self‑protection. If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
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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