God smiles at us
"GOD smile on you and gift you, GOD look you full in the face and make you prosper" Num 6:25-27 (Msg) Two weeks ago, Hugh gave a sermon about God smiling on us. It's been playing in my mind and really challenged me on my own view of God and everything else. As I mentioned before, last year was a tricky year for me. Things were just hard, there were many joyful things and also many difficult things thrown in as well. I was tired and discouraged and at points finding it difficult to trust that God had it all under control. This idea that "God smiles on us" really challenged me! I know that God is a loving, gracious, merciful God and that He died for us, which is why I don't want to disappoint Him. Therefore, I tried to do many things to make God happy. I help with this and that ministry, I try to grow myself up by doing more and more. I keep running this hard marathon in the hope that somehow I'm repaying what God had given me. Sure, there's nothing
