God uses rejection to lead you into your purpose. The Bible teaches that God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are His ways our ways. (Isaiah 55:8) We interpret rejection as something to be avoided because it causes us pain, but God uses rejection to lead us into the purpose He has for us. This world can not, and for the most part, will not see or accept the truth of God and His Word. Therefore, we as Christians who are walking in the true light of the Word will be rejected as Jesus was rejected by His people. Jesus would not have been able to fulfill His purpose of dying on the cross to pay for our sins without the rejection of His people.
Another example is Joseph, the son of Jacob. Joseph would not have been able to fulfill his purpose if his jealous brothers did not throw him in the pit and sell him into slavery. If Joseph had not been rejected by his brothers, he would not have been able to become the prime minister of Egypt, second only to Pharoah, to save the lives of many including his brothers and their families during a sever drought.
Rejection is painful, but there is always a purpose, even if it is just to draw us closer to God. This world is perishing quickly. The only thing that can save you is a true relationship with God. It’s in the lonely times that God uses to prepare and equip us to do His will. I encourage you to press through and trust God through the process. Let His will be done in your life. He will comfort and guide you and place the right people in your life. It’s hard, but it’s more than worth it.
Seek salvation through Jesus while you can:
Romans 10:9 NIV
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Isaiah 55:6-8 NIV
[6] Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. [7] Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts. Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. [8] “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.
God has a purpose for everyone:
Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Satan has deceived the world to reject the gospel of Jesus:
2 Corinthians 4:4 NIV
The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18-19 NIV
[18] For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. [19] For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
We, as true disciples of Jesus, will be rejected:
John 15:18-20 NIV
[18] “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. [19] If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. [20] Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.
Jesus warns us that we will have trouble in the world, but we overcome it by our faith in Him:
John 16:33 NIV
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
1 John 5:3-5 NIV
[3] In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, [4] for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. [5] Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
Those who overcome the world through Jesus will inherit eternal life:
Revelation 21:7 NIV
Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.
Deborah K. Givens, Admin
