Brothers and Sisters,
I meet with a group of men on Thursday mornings for fellowship and the subject of rejection came up and I want to do a quick piece on Rejection. I have yet to run into someone who does not have rejection in their life and most of the time suffer with it instead of looking to God for healing and deliverance.
Rejection - to refuse to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use
The will to live can get you through sickness, but no one can live with a broken spirit. Proverbs 18:14 (NCV)
The Word of God tells us we are loved, adopted and accepted, but rejection has an assignment to steal those truths away from us. We all know the deep sting of rejection, because we are all born with an innate longing for love and acceptance. The effects of agreeing with rejection can be physically and psychologically devastating.
WHAT MAKES REJECTION A SIN
Accepting rejection (real or imagined) disagrees with who God says we are. It places man’s acceptance as more important than God’s and you are telling God that you don’t believe Him when He said that you are worthy. You are saying to God that you would rather believe what other people are thinking of me.
Rejection will lead us on a desperate search, striving for the love that will complete us. This love cannot be found in people, places or things, but only in God.
That is, in Christ, he chose us before the world was made so that we would be his holy people—people without blame before him. Because of his love, God had already decided to make us his own children through Jesus Christ. That was what he wanted and what pleased him, Ephesians 1:4-5 (NCV)
Believe that God loves you more than anyone can love you and he will not reject you.
Blessings to you,
