Rejection can be a painful experience, but it can also be a redirection from God. God uses rejection to get people’s attention so that they can hear his voice.
Turn to God and ask for help. Remember that Jesus endured rejection and still loved people.
In Matthew 9:9-13, we see Jesus’s concern towards people who feel rejected or lost. After healing a crippled man, while Jesus was leaving, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the place for collecting taxes. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.” So he got up and followed Jesus. Jesus ate dinner at Matthew’s house. Many tax collectors and others with bad reputations came and ate with him and his followers. The Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with these people. They asked his followers, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and other sinners?” Jesus heard them say this. So he said to them, “It is the sick people who need a doctor not those who are healthy. You need to go and learn what this Scripture means: ‘I don’t want animal sacrifices; I want you to show kindness to people.’ I did not come to invite good people. I came to invite sinners.”
Psalm 38 illustrates the comprehensive, life-endangering suffering of a psalmist. Overwhelmed by God’s wrath, his illness, and guilt, the aloofness of close relatives, and life-endangering enemies, the penitent ends with a plea for God’s immediate help and a declaration of his sole hope in the Lord.
Ephesians 1:6 reminds you that God sees, chooses, and holds you close, even when others forsake you, as Jesus himself experienced rejection.
