Rejection

I've struggled a lot with rejection lately.  You don't need to know the details, we've all been rejected at some point in our life.  We all have a time where we don't feel like we fit in.  But you know the saying, "when it rains, it pours"?  It's poured a lot over the last few months.  As usual, God uses pain to bring us closer to Him.  When there is nothing else, there is nothing to get in the way of my relationship with God.
Check out these verses:

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 95 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

John 15:18 ESV / 173 helpful votes

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. "

Psalm 94:14 ESV / 83 helpful votes

For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

John 18:36 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”


Christ knows rejection.  He knows it better than any of us could ever imagine.  I take comfort in knowing that I could never experience the amount of pain and rejection my Saviour experienced, and He did it all for ME.  He made a way for me to be near God, and I am not living for anything in this world.  I am living for a relationship with Him, and so that others might know Him.  We are here on a mission-that others may know Jesus.  And if we experience a little hurt and pain along the way, that's ok.  We are here not to impress man, but to live for Christ--and my self-worth and opinion of myself has nothing to do with what others think of me.  I live only to please God, not man.  And I'm so sorry for those that are living to please man, because there will always be someone who thinks you aren't good enough.....but to Christ, you are fearfully and wonderfully made.  AMEN!!  I hope and pray that this might be an encouragement to anyone out there struggling with something like this.......this world has nothing for you, it's dust in the wind.  Praise God for the knowledge that we have something much bigger and better to live for!!