Rejected!
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come.
2 Corinthians 5:17
I know that it is true, I have known if for some time now. I get it. I get that Jesus took away my heart of stone and gave me a new heart, a heart of flesh. I get that it is no longer I who live, but Christ that lives in me, that I am now an heir of God and a co-heir with Christ. I understand all of that … and yet I still keep listening to them. I hear what they say about me and choose too often to agree with their assessment of me rather than that of my King.
I don’t think that I am alone on this one. Everyday I talk to someone who has chosen to let the assessment of someone else become their own assessment of themselves. Whether it is a positive assessment (‘they think I am the bomb, therefore I must be’), or more commonly a rejection in which someone of immense importance to us tells us in no uncertain terms that we are a failure, ugly, stupid, or just plain unredeemable; their words can speak so much louder than the truth that we ‘know’.
Why is that? I am sure that there are multiple reasons, but the underlying common denominator seems to be this lie of our enemy: that they are where life is found. And especially when they are the ones that we hoped would love us unconditionally – and they don’t – well the pain can lead us to a pit of darkness in which the light of the truth appears as nothing but a small flicker of an extinguished hope.
But you see, that is precisely the place where we are called to fight. ‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ James tells us (4:7). Our battle for this life that Christ has for us begins with refusing to listen to them, and more precisely, refusing to listen to our enemies suggestions to agree with their assessment of us.
However it goes further still, for in their rejection of us, Satan strategically inflicts life threatening wounds, wounds that will fester and continue to cover us in a shroud of darkness. It is this battle where we are called to be strong and courageous, for this is the place where only forgiveness can allow that wound to heal.
I’ll talk more about forgiveness in my next blog, but for now know that the rejection and the pain of them is not the measure of you. You ARE a new creation. They are not where life is found, and consequently, do not have the power to take that life from you. Jesus Christ is your life.
To the King,
David
I cannot tell you in words how deeply this speaks to me. God has spent much time with me attempting to show me the destruction that has followed me throughout my entire life which now has a death grip on my adult son that is a result of this very thing. When the Lord awakend me to this about myself, He litertally lifted me out of the pit I was in and began to teach me TRUTH.... The damage to my sons life, just as it was in my own, I believe began at the moment his dad and his parents found out I was pregnant. At that time I feel that they came into an agreement with the enemy by agreeing with his voice that my son had no right to exist. His very existence smeared the canvas she ( his grandmother ), sought to create. The enemy entered in at that point and began a mission to destroy my son by infecting him through their attitudes and actions the root to the destructive choices he makes pertaining to his life that the enemy knew would abort his destiny. These voices are often the loudest ones when speaking out about abortion. Never realizing that the blood of the abortionist will be on their own hands when they continually refuse any attempt at reconciling their wrongs while being sure to pat themselves on the back as they make mention of the prayers they pray for these individuals.
Thank you so much for sharing your story here Melissa. There are so many who can identify with what you have written. Fight well my friend.
To the King,
David
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