God’s Sweet Spot
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Song of Solomon 2:3-4 KJV
I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
I don’t know why, but the term “sweet spot” came to mind immediately upon reading these verses today. I wasn’t really sure what it meant, but I knew it was a good place to be so I did a bit of research.
Dictionary.com defines “sweet spot” as
“the spot on a club, racket, bat, etc., where a ball is most effectively hit.” That explains why I wasn’t sure of its meaning – I am not a sports enthusiast – except for a certain college football team and a “big” football team! I’m not a techno-wizard either, but I was able to make sense out of the other information I found.
Wikipedia.org adds that it “
refers to any location in which the reception of a signal is better than usual. This can refer to wireless computer network signals or conventional radio transmissions. A sweet spot is a place, often numerical as opposed to physical, where a combination of factors suggest a particularly suitable solution.”In other words, the sweet spot is the best place to be at any given point in time, in any given situation. It is the one place at one point where all the powers of time and space and energy converge in perfection. Skill and knowledge are required, but cannot in and of themselves create the sweet spot. It is not a human-manifested state or place. Man is merely the vehicle through which it is manifested.
So I continued this thought for a while, kind of like brainstorming on a flip chart page. If we are very fortunate, we experience sweet spot moments in our lives – reciving a diploma, reciting wedding vows, the birth of a child, a goal we have worked long and hard for that is finally accomplished. We savor these moments and rejoice in them. They are rare and precious.
I’ve been talking a great deal about the desert lately in my devotions. In that context the sweet spot would be the oasis. But I think that mindset rather limits God and his working in our lives and His power and plan. We are in God’s sweet spot every moment of our lives. He thought us up a long time ago, before creation even began. We are a rare and precious gem in His eyes and we were specifically and intentionally designed to be exactly who we are.
We are always in God’s sweet spot, but we don’t always feel his banner of love over us. Our experiences and the people we meet, the situations in which we find ourselves, sometimes make us feel anything but sweet. The world is as brutal and it is beautiful. God inspires us with the physical beauty all around us. I think He offers the stars and the sun and the moon, the mountains and oceans, flowers and all of creation to serve as a visible reminder that all of it is for us. You and me. We are God’s beloved. His banner over us is love.
My prayer today is that you rest in God’s sweet spot. And that you look around your world and realize all the beauty in the world is just for you.
Mary
