The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
They were married chiropractors with young children, co-leading a growing practice. On paper it looked like success. In reality, the marriage had become functional — two people running a business and raising kids, giving each other whatever was left over at the end of the day. The drivenness was relentless: build more locations, establish a name, reach the point where there would finally be time for the family. But that point never came. When they began practicing the presence of Christ together — placing Him in the treatment room, in the car on the way home, at the dinner table — and CHEWing on God’s love as a couple, something broke open. They saw that the empire they were chasing was driven by a need to prove themselves, not by calling. They read Essentialism and honed in. They simplified. They got a life back. They discovered they did not need the empire to be fully satisfied — because God’s love had already settled the question their drivenness was trying to answer. They have opened several locations since then. But not with the same franticness they started with.
Clarity
Lord, we confess that our drivenness has sometimes masqueraded as faithfulness — and that we have treated our marriage as functional when You designed it for connection.
Hear
“Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.” Psalm 127:1–2, ESV
God does not bless frantic building. Scripture reveals that He builds — and He gives rest to those He loves. The anxious toil that drives a couple to sacrifice their connection for an empire is not faithfulness. It is a sign that something other than God’s love is running the engine.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is sufficient enough that I do not need an empire to be fully satisfied, how would that change what I build — and who I build it with?
Walk (30–90 seconds)
Tonight, sit with your spouse or a trusted friend for sixty seconds. Ask one question: “Are we building from God’s love, or are we building for something we think will finally make us feel secure?” Listen to the answer — from them and from the One who is already in the room. 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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