The Daily CHEW™
Moving God’s Love From Head to Heart for Christian Professionals
Sunday night, before the new week loaded, I scrolled back through last week’s calendar. Not for productivity. For honesty. I asked one question: If a stranger only had this calendar to go on, what would they say I love?
The gap between what I tell people I value and what my calendar actually defended was uncomfortable. Not because the week was wasted. Because the week was crowded with proofs — small, urgent items defending a worth that God’s love had already settled.
What’s Really Going On Here
A senior leader’s calendar is one of the most honest documents in their life. Mission statements lie. Vision boards lie. Calendars do not. And underneath the over-packed week is usually a quieter belief: that one more shipped item, one more meeting, one more visible win is still needed to secure something. The calendar is not the issue. The belief underneath it is.
How God’s Love Reshapes This
“So then, neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” (1 Corinthians 3:7, ESV) Paul is naming something a high performer has to keep relearning: God’s love supplies what your effort cannot. The calendar can deliver outputs. Only God’s love can deliver worth.
“A calendar cannot earn what God's love already gave.”
— The Daily CHEW™
Exchange: If I really believed God’s love had already settled my worth before this week’s calendar was built, how would that change what I am feeling and believing about God, myself, and others as I plan the next seven days?
Walk: Tonight, open last week’s calendar for five minutes. Highlight in one color what you did out of love for God and people. Highlight in another what you did to prove something. Then ask God for one block in the coming week that reflects His love reordering the rest. 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?
Related: The Love That Never Had a Beginning.
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