I have experienced a recurring theme in my life.\u00a0 It’s that painful feeling of rejection that comes from not being heard.\u00a0 Sometimes it happens when someone completely misunderstands what\u00a0I’ve said.\u00a0 At other times I feel like someone is just not listening or paying attention to what I’m saying.\u00a0 I’m sure many of you have felt the same way.\u00a0 It’s a common desire\u00a0to want to be heard, to be understood, to be known.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I was struggling in this area this past week when God revealed Himself to me.\u00a0 I recently heard someone say that God doesn’t speak to us audibly, He speaks louder than that.\u00a0 The other night, I experienced this when His quiet words penetrated deep into my heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As I began to think about why I was hurt, I poured out my heart to God,(Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.\u00a0 Psalm 62:8<\/em>) “I feel hurt.\u00a0 I feel unimportant.\u00a0\u00a0I feel of little value.\u00a0 I feel insignificant.\u00a0 I want to be heard.\u00a0 I want to be understood.\u00a0 I want to be known.\u00a0 Are my thoughts\/feelings not worth something?\u00a0 Am I not worth listening to?”\u00a0 I had somewhere along the way in my life made the false assumption that if people\u00a0listened to me, then I was important, but if people didn’t listen to me, then I was not important.\u00a0 Because of this false belief, I have looked to people to make me feel significant.\u00a0 On this evening, I read this paraphrase of\u00a0Psalm 139:<\/p>\n I know you-when you sit down and get up, what you think.\u00a0\u00a0I carefully watch over you as you move through your day and then sleep at night.\u00a0 I am intimately acquainted with everything about you.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n Through this, God told\u00a0me that I’m important;\u00a0I’m special; He knows me; He pays attention to me.\u00a0 He is the one who deems me significant, not other people.\u00a0 If I look to people to be heard, be understood, be known, I will be disappointed and hurt, but if I look to God, I see that I have everything I need in Him.<\/p>\n Rebecca:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have experienced a recurring theme in my life.\u00a0 It’s that painful feeling of rejection that comes from not being heard.\u00a0 Sometimes it happens when someone completely misunderstands what\u00a0I’ve said.\u00a0 At other times I feel like someone is just not listening or paying attention to what I’m saying.\u00a0 I’m sure many of you have felt the same way.\u00a0 It’s a common desire\u00a0to want to be heard, to be understood, to be known.\u00a0 I was struggling in this area this past week when God revealed Himself to me.\u00a0 I recently heard someone say that God doesn’t speak to us audibly, He speaks louder than that.\u00a0 The other night, I experienced this when His quiet words penetrated deep into my heart.\u00a0 As I began to think about why I was hurt, I poured out my heart to God,(Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}