Love Overcomes Rejection

In a world where people are trying to get ahead, be noticed, be better than others, and compete with everyone else for significance rejection is common.  On an orphan planet where there is often striving to meet our own needs for love and acceptance, rejection even finds it's way into our homes and families.  If we received rejection, and all of us have received some, as we grew up then we will give what we have received.

The good news in Jesus Christ is that we have received and are receiving a love so powerful that it overcomes all rejection.  If your identity is not found in love then often it is found in rejection and wounding.  The Holy Spirit has revealed that for me at the very young age of 6 an orphan heart was birthed in the midst of my dad's suicide and a core part of this identity to formed around being rejected, unloved, and alone.  In Dr. Caroline Leaf's book, "The Gift In You", she talks about how thoughts form structures in the mind that actually take up mental real estate.  She goes onto say that these structures look like trees in our brain and the worst of them can have thorns on them and even a dark cloud over them.  She states that love actually melts these toxic trees and then begins to form new trees.

The love of the Father is the answer for an orphan planet and for all rejection.  Rejection says that at the core there is a reason that a person is unacceptable or inferior and thus the punishment is to reject them.  Rejection is so common to our culture that getting cut from the team, not being chosen for the play, or getting a low grade with the scorn that comes with it are all common experiences for most of us in our life.  In fact, without the ability to reject others our culture would be lost in how to get things done.  It is in the midst of this backdrop that Jesus is sent to bring the spirit of adoption to make us sons and daughter, beginning a revolution of love and acceptance.

In Malachi 4:5 & 6 the prophet tells of the way in which Jesus will come, "Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD.  He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.”  This same passage is quoted in the New Testament in Luke about John the Baptist who is the forerunner for Jesus who is coming in the same spirit.  God is about restoring relationship, bringing love and healing to those broken relationships and to those who have been rejected.

Accepted in the Beloved,
Bret