Sweet spots

Golfers, most of whom are decidedly not like the pros, get ecstatic when they hit the sweet spot on the club when striking the ball.  The result is an awesome non-errant shot.  Too the average golfer it is not a regular thing to hit the sweet spot.  Their normal shots are the result of their golfing weaknesses.

Professional baseball players always strive to hit the sweet spot when they are up to bat.  If they do so, the result is a well placed good hit which will result in their getting to first base more often than not. 

In both cases, the sweet spot is not always easy to hit, but that doesn't deter either the batter or the golfer from becoming discouraged or giving up.  Rather, the knowledge that they can, and do, hit the sweet spot is encouraging to them and they keep on trying.

Way too often in our daily lives we focus on our weak spots instead of our sweet spots.  We allow ourselves to get down over our failures, missteps, and mistakes.  It often becomes easy to not hang on to the sweet spots in our lives to get us through our weaker times. 

We can turn our weak spots into sweet spots by becoming more dependent on God, and less dependent on ourselves.  Once we recognize that our sweet spots are a result of God's hand in our lives we will want to focus more on those sweet spots, and in doing so will have less of those weak spots.