Acts 7:35 “This is the same Moses they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ He was sent to be their ruler and deliverer by God himself, through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.”
Rejection is a painful horrible feeling of being left out, dismissed, excluded and ostracized. Rejection can occur within the family, in romantic relationships, among friends, in church, or in professional settings. The pain of social exclusion and rejection activates the same regions of the brain that recognizes physical pain of scraping the knee or cutting the finger. The extreme impact of rejection can alter the DNA and is often linked to ADHD which can cause intense emotional outburst or total shutdown. Most common reaction to rejection is withdrawal.
All of us go through rejection in many areas of our life. However, the Word of God teaches us that rejection is only redirection toward our destiny. Various factors could contribute toward rejection. A passionate vision, a past failure, ethnicity and cultural background could push us away from people. Truth is most often rejected than accepted. No matter what the cause of the rejection is, it is still a redirection toward God’s purpose and destiny for our lives.
Moses was rejected by his brothers, the Hebrew slaves. He killed an Egyptian to save a Hebrew slave but his furious reaction turned against him. He fled into the wilderness and remained there for 40 years as a shepherd. But the Lord reshaped him as the deliverer to his people and redirected him back to Egypt. If the Lord had not put him through the 40 years of “loneliness training” in the wilderness Moses would have killed everyone who rebelled and reveled. Rejection trained him to show compassion, even to a grumbling and complaining horde.
Redirection not rejection:
- Reject: Change your perspective about the rejections you face. If someone leaves you, they are not meant to be part of your journey.
- Reshape: If we find ourselves lonely, it is a God allocation “alone time” with the Lord.
- Redirect: Be sensitive to the redirection toward your destiny. The Lord only closes the wrong door; watchout for the right door that is already open.
Rejection will reshape and redirect us to our purpose.
Prayer: Father God, open my eyes to see the truth when I am overwhelmed with the pain of rejection. Amen.
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