Day 12: Rejected No More

I know JOY, 

and I know DESPAIR.

I know PEACE

and I know ANXIETY.

I know ACCEPTANCE

and I know REJECTION.

And this is where I have to stop.

REJECTION. 

What a hard word,

when it hits your heart.

And when it does you wonder why,

as there appears to be no explanation

but just an opposition against you

that you can't fathom.

I know REJECTION

I don't like REJECTION.

I especially don't like REJECTION

that comes like an arrow,

out of nowhere

with no explanation,

but with a huge

CLOSED SIGN

that tells you are to leave the premises,

when all you did was show up.

Do you know REJECTION?

I am sorry if you do, as it doesn't feel good.

BUT I KNOW ACCEPTANCE

as

THE LORD'S LOVE is an

OPEN DOOR

for the hurting,

for the slandered,

for the lonely,

for the abused,

for the __________.

THE LORD'S LOVE

rights all wrongs in a moment

when HIS LOVE

HEALS your BROKEN HEART

and reminds you that

you are HIS.

ALL HIS.

"FOR THERE IS NOW NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN JESUS CHRIST" (Romans 8:1).

For JESUS ACCEPTS THE REJECTED

because

HE was REJECTED first.

Oh to have the STRENGTH that JESUS had

to lay down on the cross

with the verdict of

REJECTED,

while

HIS HEART

was

bleeding

ACCEPTANCE

to

ONE AND ALL.

How did JESUS do it?

How was JESUS able to RECEIVE the nails?

"For the joy set before HIM he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God"

(Hebrews 12:2.)

Oh ALL FOR THE JOY,

 for you and me and everyone else,

JESUS took the nails of

REJECTION

that

OPENED the DOOR of ACCEPTANCE

for ALL!

So when the nails of REJECTION come in your life,

remember that

JESUS wore them first.

So let's FAST from the weight of REJECTION,

by remembering what JESUS did on the CROSS

because

"YOU ARE SOMEBODY TO GOD"

(listen to the song below)