The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
You don’t intend to give your spouse the leftovers. You care deeply. But by the time you get home, the day has already taken the best of your focus and energy. You offer half‑attention, half‑sentences, half‑presence—and quietly tell yourself you’ll make it up “when things slow down.”
Clarity: The lie underneath is that home is the place you recover your worth, not the place you actively love from a secure heart.
Hear: “We love because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19, ESV) God’s love does not wait for your calendar to open up. He moves toward you first, with full attention, full presence, full delight—even when you are tired and distracted.
Exchange: If I really believed God’s love meets me at the door with full attention and delight, how would that change what I’m feeling and what I’m believing about God, myself, and my spouse when I walk into the house tonight?
Walk (30–90 seconds): Before you step inside today, pause for one minute in the driveway. Put your phone face down. Pray, “Father, thank You that You are not giving me leftovers. Help me give my spouse one specific act of full presence tonight.” Then choose it—a real conversation, an unhurried hug, a simple question that invites their heart. If this is the only thing you 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?
What is one way God’s love is inviting you to grow as a leader, not just feel better, in this area?
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