The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
Seven days. One question. Thirty seconds. Same starting point every time.
The next seven days, you are going to try one thing. Thirty seconds a day. One question. That is the whole challenge.
You already believe God loves you. You could pass a doctrinal exam on it. But most days that belief does not reach the driveway, the inbox, or the sentence you are about to say to your spouse. That is the gap this challenge is aimed at — not with more information, but with one honest question, once a day, held in front of what Scripture already says is true.
The One Thing You Are Actually Going to Do
Once a day, at a moment you pick in advance, you are going to stop for thirty seconds and ask one question. That is it. No reading plan. No app. No journal you have to keep up.
Thirty seconds. One question. Seven days. That is the whole challenge.
Pick Your Anchor Moment
Before you start, pick a moment you already do every day without thinking about it — the first sip of coffee, the drive to the office, the walk from the parking deck to the building, closing the laptop at 5:47 p.m., or the moment you sit down in your car in your own driveway before you walk in the house.
Pick the one with the most emotional traffic. For many of us that is the drive home, or the moment right before we walk back into our house — where whatever happened at work is about to become the tone our family gets.
Whichever moment you pick, use the same one every day for seven days. The consistency is doing quiet work you will not see for a couple of days.
The Question
At your anchor moment, ask this — honestly, without rushing it:
“Because God loves me as much as He loves Jesus, what changes right now?”
That is not a nice sentiment. It comes from what Jesus prays in John 17:23 — that the Father has loved His people with the same love He has for His Son. Not a diminished version. Not a probationary version. The same love.
“Because” is doing real work in that question. It does not ask you to feel it or to summon belief in a pressure moment. It asks you to reckon with something Scripture already says is true — and then to notice what, if you trusted it, would change in the thirty seconds in front of you.
What 30 Seconds Actually Looks Like
Say it’s Wednesday. You are pulling into your driveway. Your wife texted at 2:14 about something you were supposed to handle and did not, and you have been mildly braced for that conversation for three hours. You put the car in park. You have thirty seconds before you open the door.
You ask the question. Honestly. Because God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, what changes right now?
What Scripture actually says lands: He loves you right now, in this driveway, with the same love He has for Jesus. Not because you handled the thing. Not because your explanation is airtight. If that is true, you do not have to walk in braced. You do not have to lead with the case. She is not the enemy. You dropped it, and it is going to be fine to say so without protecting yourself.
Then you walk in. Say hi first. When it comes up, say I dropped it, I am sorry, here is when I will handle it. No case. No context.
That whole thing was thirty seconds. Maybe forty-five. It did not solve the marriage. But you walked into your house differently than you would have walked in three minutes earlier — and your wife heard a different tone in the first sentence you said.
That is one Core CHEW.
What Happens Over 7 Days
Day one and two, you will probably forget once and remember late. That is fine. When you remember, do it then.
By day three you will notice a strange thing: the question is starting to show up on its own in moments you did not pick. In the middle of a hard email. In the pause before you answer your teenager. You did not schedule those, but the practice is beginning to travel.
Somewhere around day four or five, you will notice something else. It is not that you feel God’s love more (though you might). It is that you are moving through your day a little less braced. A little less rehearsing. A little less about proving you are okay. The tone of the room around you softens slightly, in ways other people notice before you do.
By day seven, the question is not something you have to remember anymore. It is a track your brain already knows how to run. And underneath: you are starting to do what Psalm 1 says the blessed man does — meditating on the Lord day and night. Not in a two-hour sit-down. Woven through the day. David is not chewing on statutes as data; he is chewing on the God behind them, whose heart is love. That is what the Core CHEW is training — the ordinary rhythm of returning to what Scripture says about God’s love, right in the middle of your actual life.
None of this is dramatic. None of it is the point. The point is that God loves you as much as He loves Jesus, and that is either true or it isn’t. If it is, thirty seconds a day — growing, eventually, into a day slowly saturated with that love — is not a lot to ask.
The softer marriage, the sharper leadership, the quieter drive home — those show up. Not because you earned them. Because you got a little closer to the God you already believe in.
Worth Sharing
“Because God loves me as much as He loves Jesus, what changes right now?”
The Core CHEW question. Rooted in John 17:23. Share it with a friend.
What an answer can sound like
Here is one person’s answer to the Core CHEW question, so you can see the shape of it. Yours will sound like you. That is the point.
“I would feel joyful, really secure. I would feel light, free, and so open. I would be incredibly grateful. I would enter this next meeting smiling, reading the room, looking to genuinely connect with each person, and making sure I respect their time and affirm their strengths. I would not be afraid to have the hard conversation, but it would be said in a way that clearly shows them I care about them as a person.”
Notice what happened: the same person is walking into the same meeting. Nothing changed outside. But because the truth reached the heart for thirty seconds, the room they enter is different. That is the whole practice.
After Day 7
If seven days of Core CHEW felt like it was doing something quiet and real, you have three options. Pick the one that fits where you are.
1. Keep Going
Same question. Same anchor moment. There is no graduation. The Core CHEW is not a challenge you finish; it is a rhythm you keep. Many people stay here for months — and it keeps working, because the question is doing the work, not the novelty.
2. Let It Feed Into the Daily CHEW
A short, doctrinally-grounded reflection each morning, built for busy people who don’t want fluff and don’t want a 40-minute podcast. Ninety seconds. Seven days a week. Free.
3. Build Your Own CHEW on Any Moment
The Core CHEW is one question, thirty seconds. But when something bigger is going on — a hard conversation, a decision, a sin pattern you’re trying to see clearly — the full four-step CHEW gives you room to work it through. Same starting point. More space.
Read How to Build Your Own CHEW: A Step-by-Step Walk-Through →
That’s it. Pick your moment. Ask the question. Seven days. Then keep going, deepen it, or take it further.
New to CHEW? Start here: What is CHEW? →
With you on the journey,
Ryan
CHEW on this
Which single moment tomorrow — the one you already know — is God asking you to bring one honest question into?
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