The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You walk out of yet another high‑stakes meeting, shoulders tight, brain already scanning for the next way to prove that you belong in the room. You love Jesus, you care about people, and you honestly want to steward your role—but under the surface, there is a quieter story running: “If I do this well enough, maybe I’ll finally land in my real purpose.” That was the story one senior leader carried into her work until God met her in the middle of a normal workweek and started to rewrite it.
Over months of work together at RCBA, she began to recognize that God was not waiting on her to find the perfect assignment before He started using her life. She saw that His purpose was already underway in the way she listened to colleagues, owned mistakes, and led teams with integrity in the current role she once treated as a stepping stone. The pressure to perform her way into a future calling began to give way to a steadier confidence that God’s purposes are anchored in Christ, not in the scoreboard of her week.
Clarity
Today, your attention can drift to treating every project, promotion cycle, or board update as a test you must pass to “qualify” for God’s real plan for your life. Security slides from Christ to outcomes, and affection shifts from God’s approval in the Gospel to the rush of being seen as indispensable.
Hear
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:10, ESV) God prepares the good works before you see them, and God moves through your current assignments—not just your future ones—to advance His purposes. Scripture reveals that you are already God’s workmanship in Christ, and you receive this reality rather than earning it through your performance this quarter.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is unwavering and that God has already prepared good works for me to walk in today, how would that change the pressure I feel to perform my way into a future purpose today?
Walk
Sometime before your next key meeting, pause for 60 seconds in a hallway, car, or stairwell. Name one concrete way God might already be using you in your current role (a conversation, a hard decision, a quiet act of integrity), and thank Him that His purpose is underway before you step into the room. End by quietly saying, “God, your purpose is already in motion; help me walk in what you’ve prepared today.” 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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