Rejection feeling

The person that suffers rejection feels that others reject him. He feels no matters how hard he tries with others, he is still rejected. He sees no good in his personality. He tries to prove himself by every means. He could suffer rejection because of  one or many reasons.

The symptoms of rejection are: it is hard for the person to feel the love of or the act of love of anyone for he does not see himself worthy of appreciation. He does not see in himself anything good. He may end up in isolation away from others. Miserable is the person who suffers rejection feelings. Without a doubt this rejection will reflect on his relationship with God. He will think that Jesus Christ reject him and will not approve of his behaviour, will not approve of his faithfulness, and He will not approve of his obedience to the Bible.

The person who has rejection feeling will not believe that our Lord Jesus loves him, and loves him unto death. He can not believe he could come to Jesus without a mediator. He must have a mediator for God will accept the mediator and will  reject  him. This is a wrong feeling for Jesus said “and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” {Jo6: 37} He can not believe that he can come to the throne of God in Jesus name only but he must come in the name of another person better than himself. For he believe that God will not pay attention to his prayers but he will hear the prayers of a better person. This person lose sight of something very important and that is his relationship with God the Father and also that is he is accepted in Christ Jesus before the throne of God. He will not believe that Jesus Christ paid the highest price in the whole creation for him.

The epistle to Ephesians

If you are one of the people who suffers from rejection I advised you to read the epistle of Ephesians. The words in this epistle will be healing to your spirit, soul and body. In this  epistle the apostle Paul speaks about our place as believers in Christ Jesus and the privilege we have in Him. When you read this epistle pray that the Holy Spirit reveals to you to what is your place in Christ Jesus.

Some of the healing verses

I will list some of the verses from the epistle

“having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,” {Eph1:5} you are the child of God through the salvation of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ paid the price for you to become the child of God, He paid the price through His blood. I pray that you can comprehend this joyful truth. Beloved: everyone of us received this adoption through Jesus Christ, why? For this is to the good pleasure of His will, why? Because Jesus loves you very much. I pray that you believe that God is truthful in all what He said in the Bible. “and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,” {Eph2:6} please read this verse again to understand that when the Holy Spirit raised Jesus Christ, we are also raised with Him. Paul mentioned this truth another time in Romans “  Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life”. {Ro6:3,4} Every person was baptized with water and Holy Spirit, and was buried in baptism and has the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, as Christ was raised from death by the glory of the Father, so the Spirit that raised Jesus from death will raise our dead bodies, with the Holy Spirit that abides in us {Ro8:11} Please believe that you have a new life after baptism with water and the Holy Spirit. Some may ask why I do not experience this new life? Because you have no faith in the redemption work of Christ in your life that he died for your sake and paid the price of your sins with His blood. Unless you have faith in that, you will not experience the new life. All you have to do is repent of your sins and offer a true repentance from your heart and believe that He died in your place and you will live in this new life. All you have to do is to take a firm decision to live for Jesus. Do not live part of your life for yourself and part for Jesus. Jesus Has to be the savior and the Lord, He is the master of every part of your life.  Enough carelessness in our spiritual life. “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” {Eph2:10} you are the workmanship of God He Has created you for good deeds. If your life full of misery, be assure that this is not the will of God for you. There may be something in your life is displeasing to God, for your lack of knowledge of the word of God “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” {Ho4:6} or you do not obey a commandment knowingly and purposely that is why you have difficulty in your life. You are created in Christ Jesus for good deeds which God prepared beforehand that you should walk in them. “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.” {Eph2:13} our Lord Jesus shed His blood so you become close to God’s heart. God wants you to come to Him that you may enjoy the warmth of His love and compassion. “and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;” {Eph3:9} you have a fellowship from the beginning of the ages in Christ Jesus. Everyone of us is in the heart and mind of God. There is no place of rejection after these facts. “Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.” {Eph6:24} if you love Jesus sincerely the grace of God will be with you all the times. If you really love Jesus Christ there is no place for rejection. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,” {Eph1:3} everyone who believes in the salvation of Jesus and obey the commandment will be blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Any one tries to convince you otherwise is lying.

You are greatly loved and blessed in Jesus christ.

Worshiping God in the flesh or in the Spirit

Those who suffer from rejection feel they have to please God by whatever it takes and specially the works of the flesh. Do not try to please God with the works of the flesh only. God created you to bless you and you to bless Him. God loves you and gave you His salvation free through His grace “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,  not of works, lest anyone should boast.” {Eph2:8,9} What is the difference between worshiping God through the flesh and worshiping God through the Spirit in the life of someone who suffer from rejection? Worshiping God in the flesh: when the person tries to please God through the flesh for he thinks that God does no love him. He thinks that when he puts his flesh through pain then God will be pleased with him. But worshiping God through the Spirit is totally different than worshiping God in the flesh. The Holy Spirit will be the Guidant and the one who nourishes the person in his relationship with God. You do the good because you can not accept to do the wrong for you are a new creation in Christ Jesus, you can not plan for the wrong. I do not cancel the chance of the wrong in the life of God’s child but I cancel that the true Christian plans for a sin without the convection of the Holy Spirit. The Christian person, if Satan tries to tempt him with a sinful thought the Holy Spirit that dwells in him will convict him immediately and he will not be able to do the wrong. I want to clear this point: that as God’s children we have to regard for good things in the sight of all men “Have regard for good things in the sight of all men.” {Ro12:17}

I will give some example, I say some and not all

1-A person tries to fast all the fasting and at the same time he or she commits all kind of sins such as: cursing, lying (by the way there are no white lie and black lie. They are all black and that will prevent you from going to heaven),  anger, twisting the facts, not praying when you are fasting. Fasting with fervent prayer are great power but fasting alone is useless. But worshiping God in the Spirit together with fasting will make you live heaven on earth. Your fasting will be with fervent prayers and full of the Spirit guidance. You will be fasting and praying for a certain purpose. You will dedicate a good part of your day for reading the Bible as well as praying to our Lord Jesus. I can assure you that you will not be able to sin easily. And if you sin, the Holy Spirit will convict you quickly and you will repent and then you will walk carefully after that.

2- A person tries to attend every service in the church, not because he enjoys the services but he believes that by doing so he will please God. This is true if he does all these because his heart is longing to be with God and not to please God by whatever it takes because God does not love him. But worshiping God in the Spirit, you will go to the church to meet with the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You will go to meet with the host of saints and to be partaker of the Body and the Blood of Jesus and to become a member of the His church.

3- kneeling one or two hundred times so God will be pleased with you. Beloved God will be pleased with a repented heart “So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.” {Jo2:13} God wants your repented heart. But when you worship God in the Spirit you will worship the Lord in spirit and truth, you will not sin intentionally and purposely.

One of the most danger effects of rejection feeling is to feel that you are unworthy to come to God without mediator. You feel you have to have someone to mediate between God and yourself, someone who is more righteous than you or an angel.

The question I want to ask, can we come to God without mediator ?

“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,” {1Ti2:5}we have to come to God with a mediator, only one mediator and He is Jesus Christ. Jesus the man and Jesus  the incarnate son of God. He gave himself up as a sacrifice for everyone of us so we can have eternal life through faith in Him as a savior and redeemer for our sins.

One of the most deceiving believes nowadays is that we must have a mediator to be able to submit our prayers to the heavenly father. It means that Jesus as a mediator is not enough or it means that we are not worthy to come to the heavenly throne with Jesus. This wrong believe cancels the love of the heavenly father and cancels His justice that no one can be justified except by the perfect sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. With this sacrifice he meets God’s justice. There are no holy person or an arch angel can offer a prayers to satisfy God’ justice. There are no verses in the New Testament, after Jesus crucifixion, speaks of anyone being a mediator between us and the heavenly father. Some may mention some verses that may hint a mediator but nothing after the cross. But after the cross Jesus is the only mediator. Once more “For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,” {1Ti2:5} He is the Man and He is God. No matter the status of a man, he is still a man and not God. And no matter the rank of an angel, he is still an angel and not God.  “  But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises.” {Heb 8:6} Jesus Christ is a mediator of a better covenant and He obtained a more excellent ministry. It is clear that He is the mediator. “And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.” {Heb 9:15} Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Testament so those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

“to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” {Heb12: 24} if we have promises in the Bible like these about Jesus’ meditation for us, we have no place for rejection feelings and the wrong teaching we have now.