Rooted In Rejection
Yesterday started us on the path of Wanted on such a happy, positive note, but we can't go too far until we address something painful.
This one is going to sting, but please bear with me.
Some of us heard awful words of rejection when we were little.
I struggle even writing some of them down as I know the pain they can bring, even now.
You can't do anything right. Who would want you the way you are?
"You are ugly; no one is going to want you."
"If you don't behave, I will give you away."
"I wish you were never born."
An innocent child should never hear those words, but it happens far more often than we care to imagine or want to believe.
Experiencing that kind of rejection and feeling unwanted in those formative years is a wretched thing.
When the root of rejection takes hold, we believe the lies that we are not desirable, cherished, priceless, or perfectly and wonderfully made.
We believe we are rubbish, unwanted pieces of scrap that could be thrown away without anyone knowing or caring.
These lies are the exact opposite of the truths of what God tells us.
How dare anyone take those God-given truths away from us and force us to believe that we are not wanted?
It makes me so angry just thinking of it, I want to scream!
For those of us who have experienced this kind of trauma, any bit of rejection we face hurts on such a deep level, way more than others can understand.
So, to avoid feeling unwanted, we exhaust ourselves trying to perform and please or become small to avoid failure and rejection.
We will do everything possible to get people to want us.
But, deep down, we don't believe they really will. I mean, come on, how could anyone want us?
What a bunch of absolute and utter nonsense!
How dare the enemy come after young, innocent children and then entangle them in lies that keep them feeling worthless and unwanted.
It makes me so angry I want to scream!
If that root of rejection still entangles you today, I understand. You are not alone.
And I want you to know this: God is on a mission, and He wants you back.
God is ready to remove the deep root of rejection that shackles and entangles you in lies.
You are HIS, and HE wants you.
Make no mistake about it.
God wants YOU!
So, please keep going with me on this path. God is going to show us just how wanted we are!
That root of rejection is coming OUT!
Psalm 27:10
Although my father and my mother have abandoned me, Yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child].
Matthew 18: 6-7
"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.7Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!
Psalm 10:12
Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
Isaiah 46: 3-4
Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.