Today I want to start off with a question. Have you ever experienced pain or hurt in your life that you can really say that it is so unbearable that no one can ever say that they know what you’ve been through? It can be emotional, physical, mental pain or a life threatening illness. But pain in life is inevitable. We should accept this fact. All of us have through pain one way or the other. Did you know that from all the pain that you have been through there is a deep seated root cause? It is one  of the most awful experience that a person can experience. This is what we call REJECTION. This is very painful because all of us want to be accepted. We could never underestimate the potential damage of rejection in a person’s life. This could damage a person’s life. It is said in Proverbs 16:13, A broken heart crushes the spirit. A person who has undergone pain is experiencing shame, depression, discouragement and giving up easily. Believe it or not, rejection is so potent that is like a poison.

At early stage where a child is still in his mother’s womb, he can already feel rejected. I would like to speak to all the parents to be careful in the way we talk or say a word to our child, even in the womb, because this can impact their whole being as they grow up. Be aware of the hurtful words or things you do to your child because we will never know how these can affect him as a person. For instance, the father was expecting a baby boy but then the ultrasound shows a girl. The father would be disappointed. But little did the father know that his child felt rejected at that moment. More, so when the baby is born. When the parent realize that the baby does not look like mother or the baby has a big nose and anything that the family did not expect. As parents, we should be careful not to let our children rejected by letting them feel that their sibling is daddy’s girl or mommy’s boy. This will make the other siblings feel rejected or inferior.
This will greatly affect how they will look at themselves in the future. In our growing up years, we may fail to realize this fact but somehow or the other we have experienced rejection in our lives that impacted the way we feel about ourselves. It will also affect our attitude, the way we look at life and the way we decide. People can feel so much stress when they are rejected. This can also lead to broken relationships. Rejection can also make you rebellious.

 

All of us feel pain or hurt in our lives but there is one powerful truth. Even if you gather all the negative thoughts and feeling of rejection in the world it will be all melted by the love of God, the healing love of God. You can never really  be free from pain until you know this freeing revelation that only GOD can heal and touch your rejected and broken heart. No medicine, advice and counseling can ever heal. Only the love of God can heal the pain.

 

There are many characters in the Bible who feel seriously rejected and all of them had this amazing transformation the moment they encounter God’s love. The first example is the Samaritan woman who is fetching water in John chapter 4. She is disliked by the people around her, that is why she is fetching water at high noon where the sun is at its hottest. But when she had an encounter with Jesus she felt that she is accepted by the way she is. Jesus accepted her as she was. From then on she has become the servant of the Lord. Another one is named Zaccheus, a tax collector. When Jesus saw him, He accepted him and Zaccheus felt the love and acceptance of God right there and then. He repented and changed and committed his life for the LORD. The next example is the Adulterous woman. The people want to throw stones at her. Jesus came to her rescue and asked her accusers to throw the first rock, that is  if the have not sinned at all. One by one her accusers flee. Jesus had touched this woman’s life and He told her that she is not condemned so He asked her to sin no more. The last one is Bartimaeus, the blind man. He was shouting Jesus’ name and asked for healing. But the people around him commanded him to keep quiet. Still, Bartimaeus shouted for Jesus’ help. But he was heard by Jesus and accepted him for who he is and he was  healed.

With God all things are possible. God can touch you wherever you are if you just have this willing and open heart for Him. Only the healing love of God can cure your deepest hurt, pain and suffering. No one knows our pain better than our God who formed us with His own image and likeness. God knows the times when you are crying yourself to sleep or when you are crying and hurting  feeling that you are alone. All the more God feels your pain. He knows our pain. He even feels our pain but on top of it all, only God can heal our hurts and pain. If we could just open our heart and pour out ourselves to the Lord and allow Him to heal us fully, then we can experience the magnificent healing of God’s Love.