Some people experience rejection early on in life and some don’t experience it until later on. I have learned that rejection can come in all shapes and sizes and most of the time I don’t always recognize it right away.

A couple of years ago I personally experienced a big form of rejection and it hurt. The pain of the rejection still stings to this day. When I get rejected in small ways or experience rejection in my everyday life, I get flashbacks of when I got rejected a couple of years ago. This is what I like to call the haunting of rejection.

When you think of the word of rejection you might think of a girl rejecting a boy for a date but it goes way deeper. Some people feel rejection at school, at home, in abusive relationships, and friendships. Many people take their earthly feelings of rejection and put God in the same spotlight.

When I experienced rejection the other day in a small simple way, my memory was flooded of the incident that happened years ago. I felt the sting of not being wanted, of not being loved, not being embraced and the cut off that humans like to do to each other. The haunting of rejection is going to happen, we are sinful human beings. We have control though of how we handle the haunting of rejection and the flashbacks.

We were thoughtfully and beautifully made. God chose us to be formed in the womb and we were miraculously made by the will of God. The Lord loves us, embraces us, fulfills us, equips us, forgives us, wants us, and holds our right hand through all that we face. We are given the power to speak life over our past, present, and future. The devil has no say over our past, present, or future. The Holy Spirit guides us and speaks life over our rejection. Rejection has no hold on us as Christians; we have overcome rejection, hurt, and sin through the power of Jesus.

We are loved and held by the one who holds the world in his hands. We no longer have to feel the guilt or burden of past rejection from our parents, siblings, friends, exes, teachers, judges, schools, thoughts, and anything else trying to hold us down.

The Lord has equipped you to overcome whatever is in your path. The Lord is at your right hand and I encourage you to speak life over your rejection and thoughts. Isaiah 55:8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. Stop falling under the trap of sin and going by your emotions. KNOW that you are loved, made for a purpose, and our heavenly Father tells of how worthy you are!