Reject: “refuse to accept” according to the Oxford dictionary.
Oxford Thesaurus “ turn down, decline, forsake, cast aside, desert.”
Does this sound like something Jesus would do?
No not at all and yet churches do it all the time.
Reject is a word I hate, I have experienced this word so much in my life that when it happens AGAIN, I sigh and say “see you really are a loser.”
My laugh was always too loud, my voice always too loud, I talk too much!
The list goes on....
So when I found God and found out how much I am loved by my Creator it was an amazing feeling. He did not reject me with all my faults and all my past, he accepted me, The God of Love was there for me and still is.
Jay Adams wrote “When a person forgives another, he is promising to do three things about the intended wrongdoing: not to use it against the wrongdoer in the future; not to talk about it to others; and not to dwell on it himself.”
Then Peter came to him and asked , “Lord how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times?” “No” Jesus replied “seventy times seven”
Matthew 19:21 NLT
My lesson these last two months seems to be all about Love.
Henry Drummond put it together perfectly “ The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson is how better we can love. What makes a man a good cricketer? Practice. What makes a man a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What makes a man a good linguist, a good stenographer? Practice. What makes a good man? Practice. Nothing else.
So when the sting of rejection is felt once again in my life, I feel the pain, the deep pain that again I am not good enough in some human eyes. I have not been forsaken by my God, My God of Love and Grace, I have an audience of one.
“If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.” 1 John 4:12
