The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals
Nobody clapped when you answered that one email carefully instead of firing back what you actually felt. No one saw you choose patience with the barista, or when you took the extra two minutes to actually read the memo instead of skimming it. You noticed, though — that it didn’t seem to matter to anyone. Today, look at whether that’s actually true.
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: The Wins Nobody Is Tracking
Your professional life runs on visible metrics — closed deals, hit deadlines, quarterly numbers. It trains you, without meaning to, to file anything that isn’t measured or witnessed as basically wasted. So the quiet integrity of your ordinary Tuesday — the patience nobody clocked, the honest word nobody applauded — starts to feel like it doesn’t count toward anything. You wouldn’t say out loud that God only cares about your visible wins. But the way you talk to yourself on an unremarkable day suggests you believe it anyway.
H – Hear: Don’t Despise the Day of Small Things
“For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.” (Zechariah 4:10)
Zerubbabel was rebuilding the temple with a fraction of the resources and grandeur of Solomon’s original — a discouraging, unglamorous, small-scale project next to what used to stand there. God’s word to him wasn’t “hang on until it gets bigger.” It was a rebuke of the very category: don’t call this small. The Hebrew behind “small things” is built on the root qatan — the ordinary word for small or insignificant, the same word used for the least of Israel’s tribes. God takes that exact word and refuses to let Zerubbabel use it as a verdict on the work. Your unglamorous Tuesday isn’t a smaller category of day that matters less to God than your biggest win of the year. He doesn’t grade your Tuesday on a curve.
E – Exchange: The Trade Between Unnoticed and Noticed
What has to be exchanged is the belief that unmeasured means unnoticed. You’ve been running on the assumption that if it isn’t tracked in a dashboard somewhere, it isn’t fully real — that the only accomplishments with actual weight are the ones someone else can verify.
Because God’s love is like a Father who watches the ordinary day as closely as He watches the biggest win, how does that change what you do with the next small, unnoticed thing in front of you today?
W – Walk: Name What God Sees
Before your next meeting, name one small, unwitnessed thing you did today — out loud, even alone in your car or office — and say: “God saw that.” Let it be a fact you state, not a feeling you’re fishing for. Do it again on a day that feels even smaller than today, and see if the habit starts to change how you measure your own week.
Closing question: What did you do today that no one saw but God?
With you on the journey,
Ryan
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