The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
Some boundaries are walls. They look like maturity. They function as escape.
The conversation needed an apology. You wrote a boundary instead. The fence rose where confession belonged.
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C – Clarity: What’s Really Going On Here
A real boundary protects a real good. It guards a marriage or a calling. It is not a verdict.
A false boundary protects a self. It uses the language of health. It avoids repentance.
The tell: you feel relief, not resolve. The other person feels managed, not loved.
H – Hear: How God’s Love Reshapes This
Scripture knows what repentance sounds like. Godly grief produces repentance that leads to salvation (2 Corinthians 7:10). Worldly grief manages reputation; godly grief mourns the One grieved.
When the Father’s love covers your worst, the boundary stops hiding you. You write the apology first. Then, if needed, the fence.
Forgiveness is a decision. Trust is evidence. Both flow downstream of confession.
Some boundaries are avoidance.
E – Exchange: Receive His Love Here
When the cross has already absorbed your worst, confession becomes safe. The fence stops being your hiding place.
When I really believed God’s love is the love that has already absorbed my worst in Christ, how would that change what I am feeling toward the person I have been managing with a boundary, and what I am believing about God, myself, and what an honest apology would cost?
W – Walk: One Move You Can Make
Name the conversation you have been fencing. Write the apology first, in one sentence:
- Here is what I did.
- Here is the harm it caused.
- Forgive me.
Set the boundary from confession, not cover.
If this is the only thing I do from this CHEW today, it is enough.
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With you on the journey,
Ryan
Where is God asking you to write an apology before you write a boundary?
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