Sweet Spot
Exodus 14:13 “Stand still and see the salvation of Jehovah, which HE will work for you”
I had been thinking about being in a spot where you accepted by faith several things. I know no picture is complete when it comes to Christ but this what I have share:)
One, I died with Christ and was raised IN Christ, and that I am no longer living but it is Christ. Paul came to understand that the life we live is the life of Christ alone, when he said “It is no longer I that lives, but Christ Gal2:20. This is not for some time in the future, or when “I get it right” or just for Paul. It is now and for us. It is our reality now and forever. We are not to regard anyone in the flesh not even ourselves. We can stop struggling to “be good” and accept that we are already dead and rest.
Second, I can trust that Christ through the Holy Spirit to do in me what I cannot do myself. I am completely dependent upon Christ to walk out this life on earth. Accepting that I can do nothing apart from Christ. So everything I have done and can still do apart from Christ in my own strength is NOTHING. Each time I am faced with a new demand from the Lord, I look to Christ to do what is needed. This makes that verse “I can do ALL things IN Him that strengthens me”Phil 4:13, so much more sweeter.
I can, if I choose to yield to theses truths by faith, these realities, live in a state of constant rest. I do not have to yo-yo back and forth between is it possible or not to have true rest and peace in this life. A constant state of internal rest can be mine regardless of what external things that are happening.
It is NOT a Trying but a Trusting and not Struggling but a Resting. That spot where the life of Christ comes forth and can be seen in its fullest. It all comes about by resting and not wavering from,but a standing, IN TRUTH.
With all this in mind a word came to my head-SWEET SPOT. I did not know at first the definition of this word. So this is what I gathered from WIKI:) But it was exactly what I was thinking in regards to all this.
From Wikipedia:
A sweet spot is a place where a combination of factors(truths listed above) results in a maximum response for a given amount of effort(none on our part). In tennis, baseball, or cricket, a given swing will result in a more powerful hit(expression of Christ life) if the ball strikes the racquet or bat on the latter’s sweet spot.
When hitting a baseball with a bat, there is a location along the bat where this force is completely balanced out by turning force of the bat. If the ball is hit closer to the end of the bat, the grip of the bat will try to rotate forward out of the batter’s hands, whereas if the ball hits it closer to the handle, the bat’s tip will try to rotate forward and drive the bat into the batter’s hands. There is a small “sweet spot” where these two tendencies cancel out. The “sweet spot” location on a given baseball bat varies however it is approximately 6.5 inches (17 cm) from the end of the barrel.
When we allow the Lord to swing(with His strength not ours) the bat(us) you will see the true reality of the flesh being dead and our natural effort cancel itself out, so that all that is seen is His life expressed at it’s fullest.
There is a sweet spot for hearing too-
The sweet spot is a term used by audiophiles and recording engineers to describe the focal point between two speakers, where an individual is fully capable of hearing the stereo audio mix(Christ) the way it was intended to be heard by the mixer (which is Christ)
Sound engineers also refer to the “sweet spot” of any noise-producing body that may be captured with a microphone. Every individual instrument has its own sweet spot, the perfect location to place the microphone or microphones, in order to obtain the best sound.
We have been placed in the Sweetest spot,the perfect spot, which is in Christ to hear Him and express his life when we accept by faith our true reality is found in how HE sees us and He can do all things.
Psalm 125 “Those who trust in the Lord will be like Mount Zion(Christ) which will never be shaken”
So it is possible to have a constant state of rest and not to be shaken by whatever may come our way. My prayer is to know this rest more in all it’s richness, Lord. Thank you for your rest.
Walking in the Light of Life 