The Sweet Spot!
Remember “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”?
Goldilocks breaks into the house of the three bears and tries three bowls of porridge, one is too hot, one is too cold, and the third is just right!
Goldilocks tries three chairs. One is too big the other too small but the third is just right.
Then being tired, she tried the three beds, one too hard, one too soft but the third is just right.
But we are left with the two-word worthy goal of how to do life, “just right.”
In other words: balance. Avoiding extremes. You might even call it “God’s sweet spot.” Doesn’t that sound like a nice way to live?
What is a sweet spot? Tennis players talk about a sweet spot on their racket where the ball jumps off with maximum velocity and precision, and no vibration. Golfers have a sweet spot on the club to hit the ball with as well.
Career counselors describe your sweet spot as the job where you do what you love, do it well, and get paid for it. Amen!
In the same way, there is a place God wants you to live. Where you’re living with purpose, not futility. Clarity, not chaos. Not running too fast or walking too slow. Not buying bigger and bigger houses, but not living in a cardboard box. In balance. In contentment. In God’s Sweet Spot. Amen?
I am doing a sermon this morning on the Agur’s prayer in Proverbs.
Here is Agur’s prayer in Proverbs 30:7-9 (NIV) (7) "Two things I ask of you, LORD; do not refuse me before I die: (8) Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. (9) Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, 'Who is the LORD?' Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
What a message for all of us today. Pray that prayer today. We don’t want riches or poverty, amen? Both can lead to a broken relationship with the Lord. We should pray and be thankful for our daily bread. Amen?
When we truly want to live as in Agur’s prayer, we have found God’s sweet spot for us!
My prayers this morning is that you start living in that sweet spot today!
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