The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
What Leaders Are Learning
You know God loves you. You could teach the doctrine, quote the verses, lead the small group. And yet there you are in the driveway, staring at lagging revenue, missed targets, or a flat response to months of work, and your body feels like you just lost a playoff game you were “supposed” to win. Your chest is tight, your mind is racing the post‑game analysis, and some quiet part of you still reads the numbers as a verdict on you. This is where the gap shows up between what you believe in your head and what you feel in your bones. Today is not about pretending the metrics do not matter. It is about letting God’s love reset what the metrics can and cannot say about who you are.
Clarity
Be honest: where do you treat the latest results—P&L, headcount, engagement, promotion lists—as a live scoreboard on your worth as a leader and as a man? Notice how quickly your emotional temperature rises or falls with the numbers, as if God’s affection tracks your performance curve.
Hear
“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Scripture reveals that God anchored His love for you at the Cross, not at the top of a performance review or a successful exit. God works through even disappointing results to expose the lie that your identity is up for renegotiation every quarter, and God renews your mind so you can obey from security, not strive for it.
Exchange
If I really believed God’s love is unwavering and not based on my performance curve this quarter, how would that change the way I read my numbers, my reviews, and my “scoreboard” today?
Walk
Sometime today, before you re‑open the dashboard or that key report, take 60 seconds in your driveway, office, or parking deck and pray one simple line: “Father, thank You that in Christ, my identity is settled before I see these numbers.” Then open the metrics and read them like a wise steward—looking for insights, learning, and next steps—rather than like a defendant waiting for a verdict. 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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