Do You Feel Rejected? Read About This Rejection

Mark 6:3 – Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

Rejection is painful. Rejection is traumatic. Yet rejection is inevitable in this sinful world. We need to understand how rejection works. We need a biblical perspective on rejection.

You apply for a job, you get rejected. You are in a relationship, you get rejected. You disagree with relatives, you get rejected. You apply for a scholarship, you get rejected. Rejection is all around us. We may not avoid rejection therefore we need a biblical understanding.

Rejection makes us feel in adequate. Rejection makes us feel incompetent. Rejection makes us doubt ourselves.

Jesus was rejected yet He was a perfect man. Jesus was rejected yet He was sinless and without blame. Jesus was rejected yet He was better than everyone else. Jesus was rejected for no good reason. That tells us a lot about rejection.

Jesus went to His hometown to preach and He did great things. His home people started asking jealousy driven questions. How can He do such things? Where did He get power to do all these? Jesus was rejected because of jealousy among His home people. We too can get rejected because someone is feeling jealous.

Jesus did great things at His hometown. Yet the people’s reaction was to compare Him to themselves. They wondered how can He be greater than us yet He is one of us around here? “Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?”

Jesus was rejected because He had risen above the home standards. He was doing better than them. How can He do great remarkable things, yet His place amongst us is that of a carpenter? Why is He rising above that? Now we will be inferior to Him? Let’s reject Him so that He is not compared with us. That is how Jesus got rejected.

Sometimes we get rejected because we have excelled. We are rejected for being good. We are rejected for being better than those who believe they are the best and we are inferior. Rejection could be a sign that we have exceeded local standards. Rejection can be a consequence of success.

Unfortunately when we are rejected, we think we are failures, yet it could be because we are successful! When we are rejected we blame ourselves and question ourselves yet the problem is with those who reject us.

When we blame ourselves yet we are not to blame, it is an endless pit of stress and depression. You are looking within for what is in others. You are looking for your own failures that got you rejected, yet those failures are in those who rejected you. Since therefore you may never find it in yourself, it becomes a bottomless pit of self blame. Yet like Jesus, you may not be the one to blame.

Jesus was the best yet Ge was rejected. Jesus did good and great things at home yet He got rejected. Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead yet He got rejected. Jesus fed the people and the same people rejected Him.

Compared to Barabass Jesus was rejected. Barabass was a thief yet they preferred Him to Jesus. Barabass robbed people violently yet they preferred him than Jesus. Jesus was rejected yet He was the best. Excellence will not make you accepted. Excellence may be the reason why you get rejected.

Religious leaders influenced people to reject Jesus and choose Barabass. Our competitors could be the reason why we are rejected. Many innocent people could be acting against us on behest of our haters. The one rejecting us could be an extension of a hidden real enemy.

Joseph was rejected for dreaming big. Joseph was rejected and sold to slavery by his own brothers. If rejection can come from blood brothers where can’t it come from? If rejection can come from Jesus’s own hometown, where can’t it come from? Can’t it come from friends? Can’t it come from intimate partners? Can’t it come from childhood friends? Can’t it come from relatives? Can’t it come from best close partners?

Joseph was rejected so that he does not become greater than his brothers. Yet Joseph still became greater than his brothers. Jesus was rejected so that He remains a carpenter and nothing above His people. Jesus was rejected so that He remain in the low social position that His hometown had assigned Him. Yet Jesus still became better and higher than the community that rejected Him to contain Him. If you do not lose focus, rejection will not stop you from the excellence that God planned for you.

Matthew 27:46 – About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).

Sometimes it feels like God has rejected us. After all the three and a half years of preaching, it seemed like God the Father had rejected Jesus who is God the Son. After good work you expect appreciation, yet Jesus felt rejected.

After earnest prayers in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus felt rejected by God. Sometimes when prayers aren’t answered us we wished we may feel rejected. It may seem like God has rejected us, yet He hasn’t!

Luke 23:46 – Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

When you feel rejected by God, don’t give up on God. Commit yourself to God. Jesus committed Himself to the same God He was asking why He had rejected Him. You can walk away from people who reject you, but don’t walk away from God even when it seems He has rejected you. Stick to God on the Friday He seems to have rejected you on a cross, and on Sunday He will raise you from any dead situation. Stick to God even when you think He has rejected you! You have misunderstood Him, He doesn’t reject His own.

When Jesus got rejected at home, He moved away and never did any great works at home. When we get rejected we should move on. Don’t hang around mourning the rejection. Move on for that is a move to excellence.

When Joseph got rejected, he moved on to slavery. That was a move that looked bad but became the path to excellence. Just move on even if for now it’s painful and unlike success. Move on in the name of God! In Jesus’s name, Amen!

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