09/23/2025
Rejection is extremely painful, as bad as physical pain, or perhaps worse. God has created us for acceptance, and rejection goes against everything in His plan for us, yet we all experience it. It often comes from those we love most, because Satan knows they are the ones who can influence and hurt us most. He uses the pain of rejection to try to get us to be people-pleasers instead of God-pleasers.
The apostle Paul states in Galatians 1:10 that he would not have become an apostle of Jesus Christ if he had tried to be popular with people. How many people miss their destiny because they don’t reject the rejection that comes to derail them? Probably more than we can count.
God accepts you, and that is what really matters, so when people reject you, pray for them and reject their rejection, because God has a plan for you that will succeed without them.
"Lord, help me to stand strong when people reject me, and help me to believe what You say about me more than I believe what they say about me. In Jesus' name, Amen!"