If
we are honest, every one of us have felt rejection at one time or
another. Rejection comes in a variety of forms. Sometimes it sounds like
this.... Job interview..you know you have great qualifications, I'm
sure someone will hrie you, but you're not a good fit for us. Rejection
starts in life at any early age. So get used to it. But somehow we
can't. Mother Teresa said we have drugs for people with diseases like
leprosy. But these drugs do not treat the main problem - the disease of
being unwanted; rejected. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible kind of poverty. Jesus himself was rejected.
Jesus
had just returned to Galilee. The news about Him is spreadingly
rapidly. He taught in their synagogues and the scripture says that
everyone parised Him. Then He went to Nazareth "where He had been
brought up." It was his habit/custom to go the synagogue...it was the
Sabbath Day so that is exactly what He did. Someone said, Jesus would
you come and read the scripture today? Can you imagine ? They handed Him
the scroll of Isaiah. He unrolls it and He reads these powerful words.
(18-19) "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me
to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of
sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. To preach
the acceptable year of the Lord."
The Bible then tells us that the eyes
of everyone in the syngagoue were fastened
on Jesus and He then says to them...today this scripture is fulfilled
in your hearing. Rejection is not exclusive. All of us get to
participate. So don't be surprised when it happens. You've felt it
before. So have I. (22) "and all bare him witness, and wondered at the
gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not
this Joseph's son?" There is perhaps something that is difficult about
ministering to people who have watched you grow up. The problem is they
never seem to be sure that you have .....grown up. They remember you
only as a child and they don't always give you the chance as an adult.
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