Pink and blue sky – raw sugar spun into cotton candy – pure gooey, sticky sweetness. As the sun was rising on my praise walk this morning, I couldn’t help but notice how the sky looked like cotton candy. Now those of you who know me well know that I can relate almost everything in life to sugar and this morning was no exception. I looked up and saw the pink and blue swirling into purple and all I could think about was cotton candy. Yum! Just plain sweetness – some would say too sweet but I’d say no such thing.
As I hike up and down the road, I start thinking about the sweetness of Jesus. Frankly, I’ve never thought of Jesus as sweet, but the thought popped into my mind so I went with it. I think of Jesus as powerful, strong, bold, in control, compassionate, caring, and loving, but never sweet. I think of sweet as gentle, kind of delicate. I mean think of cotton candy. The wovenness of the spun sugar has a delicate texture. But the word sweet means pleasing, satisfying, acceptable.
I bear my testimony that there is no joy to be found in all this world like that of sweet communion with Christ. I would barter all else there is of heaven for that. Indeed, that is heaven. As for the harps of gold and the streets like clear glass and the songs of seraphs and the shouts of the redeemed, one could very well give all these up, counting them as a drop in a bucket, if we might forever live in fellowship and communion with Jesus. Charles Spurgeon
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light. Matthew 11:28
Come to me, commune with me, taste and see… With all the bitterness of the world, is there anything sweeter than Jesus’s words to us calling us unto Himself? Sweet, gentle, satisfying.
However, those the Father has given me will come to me, and I will never reject them. For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will. John 6:37
Again, come to me, commune with me… What would we give up to have sweet communion with our Lord, to taste and see?