The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You are sitting on the edge of the bed at first light, feet not yet on the floor, and the thought has already arrived ahead of you — the portfolio, the slow quarter, the bill, or the fantasy of provision that has started running before you have prayed a single sentence. I will admit I have caught myself in the last category — quietly daydreaming about a wave of financial security God could send my way — and noticing how easily that fantasy slips into the seat that belongs only to Him. Saturday’s anchor named five money beliefs quietly running Christian high performers’ lives. Monday morning is where they wake up first.
Clarity: The first money thought of your Monday is not neutral data. It is the working theology of your heart speaking before your discipline has had a chance to.
Hear: “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” — Colossians 3:2, ESV. God does not ask leaders to suppress the thought or pretend the bill is not real. Scripture reveals that the mind set above is the one secured by Christ — the God who was generous before any of us ever earned a dollar — and that the mind set there reshapes how every dollar is held, deployed, and trusted later in the day.
Exchange: If I really believed God’s love is so settled that the first thought of my Monday cannot make Him more for me or less for me, how would that change the way I respond to the money thought waiting at the edge of my bed this morning?
Walk: Before your feet hit the floor, sit with hands open in your lap for 30 seconds. Name the first money thought out loud in one sentence. Then say: “You were generous to me before I ever earned a dollar. You are generous now.” Then stand up. 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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