The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
See what kind of love the Father has given.
Not the love you have for God. Not the love you are trying to feel today.
The love He has already given.
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Clarity
John does not ask you to work up affection this morning. He asks you to look.
Look at what the Father gave. Look long enough for it to reorder the week you just finished and the week you have not started.
That is Sunday. Not another performance. A long, slow look at Him.
Hear
This is not a verse to make you feel loved. It is a Father telling you what He has already done — given you a love so large it named you His child. Stay with what He says: “has given,” “called children of God,” “and so we are.” You are not reaching for a status. You are living inside one He set.
“See what kind of love.” The Greek word John uses — potapos — is what a person says when a love is so foreign it stops them. Not what kind you expected. What kind you did not know existed.
“The Father has given.” Past tense, standing complete. The gift is not pending. It is not conditional on the way your Sunday feels.
“That we should be called children of God; and so we are.” John will not let it stay theoretical. Called. And so we are. The name and the reality are the same thing.
Today’s verse to hear:
“See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.” (1 John 3:1a)
“The Father gives this kind of love.”
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Exchange
For six days you have led. Decided. Carried. Today the assignment is smaller and larger at once: look at the Father who gave this kind of love.
Not to add a moment of gratitude on top of the week. To let the week be reordered by the Giver who has been in it the whole time.
When I really believed the Father had already given this kind of love — before I performed anything, before I recovered from anything — Sunday stopped feeling like a reset and started feeling like a homecoming.
Sit with that. Sixty seconds.
Walk
This morning, before the sermon, before anyone else is up: read 1 John 3:1 out loud. Then read it again. Then a third time. Do not analyze it. Let it land.
Sometime today — on a walk, in the car, at the table — say one sentence out loud: “Thank You, Father, for this kind of love.” Nothing else. Let it stand.
With you on the journey,
Ryan
What does it do to you to know the Father has given — already — the kind of love that names you His?
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