TOTD, April 09

Victory Over Rejection

No one enjoys being rejected, but all of us can learn to handle rejection and get on with our life if we remember that Jesus was also rejected and despised. He gained the victory over rejection by being faithful to God's plan for His life. Because He defeated rejection when He shed His blood on the cross for our sins, rejection can no longer defeat us.

He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any esteem for Him.

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows...
--- Isaiah 53:4

My own reflection on this Thought:
* Being rejected by our friends, by our society is painful. Maybe you've experienced this before. In your peer group as a teenager, you're being rejected only because of your physical problems (too fat or too skinny or any other reason) or because your family's financial was not as rich as others in the elite school,or lots of other reasons.
The bottom line is all of us has this rejection experience before.
It's not easy to face your rejection. Maybe some of us is still living with those pain until now. But today's Word of God reminds us to remember that Jesus was also rejected and despised. And He has been through those dreadful experience that we could see in " Passion of the Christ" only because His Love for us. For He Himself was never deserve to go through those painful stages.
We need to realize that God has already sacrifice Himself for us, so we don't need to live in the rejection trap anymore. Move on as God really loves you and thinks you're worthy! (-fon-)