The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
Some truths about God’s love reach your heart faster as a melody than in a paragraph. Picture your drive to work: a hymn you almost skipped is playing, and for the first time all week a line about God’s love does not just make sense, it lands. Nothing about the commute changed, only the way the truth moved from your head to your heart.
C.H.E.W. with Me
New here? What is CHEW? — a 30-second practice that grows into a day woven with God’s love.
C – Clarity: Explaining God’s Love Versus Feeling It
You can explain God’s love clearly to your family and peers and still find, by midafternoon, that your emotions did not get the memo. That gap is common among mature believers, and it is not a sign of weak faith. Information travels to the head quickly, and the heart responds to different means of understanding. The question for today is which means Scripture itself gives us.
H – Hear: Paul Hands You a Songbook, Not a Technique
“…addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,” (Ephesians 5:19)
Paul is describing what a Spirit-filled community looks like, and one marker is musical: believers addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. This is first a corporate pattern, a church singing truth to each other. But the Psalms, the songbook at the center of Scripture, shows the same instinct in private, as David and the other psalmists sing their doctrine back to God.
The Greek behind “making melody” is psallō, which originally meant to pluck a string. Paul says the instrument is “your heart.” This is not a mood-making technique. It is Scripture-saturated truth set to a tune, so that what is true about God stays put once it reaches your heart.
Choose songs that state who God is rather than how you feel. “O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” and “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” are good places to start, because they sing God’s love as fact, with a tune that makes the fact easy to carry. God’s love is the subject; the melody is the delivery.
E – Exchange: Sing God’s Truth
The habit worth trading is treating worship as something that happens in a building once a week and the truth of God’s love as something you only read. Trade it for the pattern Paul gives: truth sung to the Lord with your heart, on any day, in any car. When you sing a line about deep love, you are not manufacturing a feeling; you are agreeing out loud with a fact.
Because God’s love is even deeper than words can express, how does that change what I play and sing on my next drive or walk?
W – Walk: Press Play Before You Press Send
Today, choose one hymn that names God’s love. Play it once, start to finish, on the way in or at your desk, and sing or hum along. On the second verse, pick the one line that says what God’s love is like and say it aloud once more. Five minutes. If you do not know where to start, begin with the two hymn titles in today’s Hear section.
Closing question: What would you sing to God if you fully believed in His love?
With you on the journey,
Ryan
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