Rejection – what an awful word. We don’t like to talk about it, teach about it or even read it. We don’t even like to readily admit that we all have experienced it in some form or another. It is humiliating to our flesh to admit rejection. I, like many others had suffered in silence from rejection and the awful fear that it creates. I know in my own life that I have feared rejection because to be rejected would say to me that I was “worthless” or not “good enough” and I need to be loved and accepted by others in order to feel secure and significant. What about you?? Do you fear rejection? If so, ask yourself, “If I were rejected, what would that say about me?” Chances are that you will discover your very own “False Belief” (as we like to call it). So…what is the truth? For myself – I found truth in I John 4. I had read it many times and wondered about its full meaning. I sensed in my spirit that there was much more there but I could not see it….Until….I read it in light of God’s wonderful grace. In verse 7 John begins talking about loving one another and that love springs from God. He goes on to explain the wonderful message of God sending his own Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Verse 12 then shares a unique truth. He says that if we love one another God abides in us and His love is brought to completion in us. Brought to completion means brought to its full maturity, runs its full course and is perfected in us. If you go on a few verses you find verse 18 that says “there is no fear in love, but full grown love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror. For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love” (Amplified Bible) – meaning he is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection. I believe what Father wanted me to understand is that when I receive and embrace God’s full love for me; He meets all my needs for security and significance. This in turn frees me to allow Christ to love and serve others through me because I don’t need anything in return from them – I am free. When I seek to get those needs of security and significance met by others I am not free but I am bound to them. If they do not reciprocate in like fashion I end up hurt and feeling rejected. Thanks be to our Lord Jesus Christ – I don’t have to live this way anymore! Isn’t it great that God IS our New Life Design!!
Dana