Heartache of Rejection

            Heartache of Rejection


    Abandoned by a parent, neglected, alone most of your childhood, betrayed by a boyfriend, lied to, your "best friend" no longer wants the friendship, your husband is no longer interested....


       The list can go on and on. If you're human you've felt the heartache of rejection at some point in your life. It causes your heart to literally ache, you start to feel insignificant, you start to question if you even matter. Your entire person is attacked by the overwhelming feeling of insecurity and heartache. You wonder "what's the point of all this?"  For a moment you could even feel like ending it all because the pain is just too much! 


      As a child we trust that our parents will take care of us because that's their job! When this trust is broken insecurity creeps in. We've been rejected. When a parent decides to leave the home because of divorce insecurity creeps in. We've been rejected. As a young teenager you hope that the person who has caught your attention won't break your heart but when they do insecurity creeps in. 
We've been rejected...


     As I look around the world today it's pretty easy to see the pain of hurt and rejection coming from people's lives. They are mean, hurtful, insecure, obsessed with looks, easily taken advantage of, workaholic's, alcoholics', drug addicts..... this is what happens when we don't allow God to heal our wounds. We become an open wound bleeding on everyone we come into contact with. God has a very special plan for each of us and HE can take our rejection and hurt and use it for His glory. He can take the non-sense of our messy lives and have it make sense. He can take our heartache and turn into a beautiful love story. 
     So why are we living in defeat? I think most of us don't want to give Him our hurts because it means forgiveness, it means letting go, and lets admit it it most of us are not big fans of either one. It means trusting God with our emotions enough to say " Im ready to move on and heal and move into the freedom you have for me". It may even mean some work on our part. God wants to heal us so that we can have an abundant life with Him... 




     God never rejects a weak and weary heart that seeks Him. No matter how broken-down and overwhelmed we are, God welcomes us and is willing and able to help us.




     Isaiah 61- "The Sovereign Lord has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners...to comfort all those who mourn...to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair."
      God says that, through His Son, He wants to unleash in your soul healing for the pain of your past, a freedom from the darkness that has brought you down. He wants to turn what's been something ugly into something beautiful and something life-giving.




     We don't have to live with the heartache of rejection. Right now, right in this moment you can give your pain to God. He'll gladly take it. Allow yourself to be free, to love and to trust again. Most of all allow God to use your hurt to make you a strong witness for the Lord so that your "mess" can become a "message" of hope for all the other hurting people in the world.  




     Once we've given God our pain and rejection we can begin to live a life of security! A life that when people are mean, because they will be , or a husband leaves, or a job is lost or a friend is no longer, our world won't be turned upside down because our hope in fully in God and not people. When God is the sole source of our security nothing can shake us and that is where God wants us. He wants us to trust HIM... He wants our trust in him because he knows that when we trust in people too much it will lead to heartache. God's desires for us are not for His own good they are for ours. Let's take the time to get to know Him by reading His word and taking to Him so that we can begin to live the life He has planned for us since before we were even born. 


     John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.

Jesus came that we might experience life "to the fullest".