Accepted

WORDs of Saving Grace - accepted

Ephesians 1:6  To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

If you have ever been rejected by a person of a group of people, you know how it hurts in our heart. Maybe you have been rejected by family, friends, a girlfriend or boyfriend, a school or group at school, or even by a church group or congregation.

Rejection affects the innermost parts of our hearts.  Perhaps you have preached with everything that in you is, and you were still rejected time and again.

It is easy to focus on rejection and allow it to affect our dreams, courage and self esteem. 

Lets consider the life of Jesus.

Isaiah 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Jesus knows exactly how rejection hurts in your heart, but that doesnt really help for someone to only know how you feel.

But what God did to help our rejection from His fellowship and kingdom is, Jesus was rejected by Him because of our sin, that we could be accepted in Jesus.

Matthew 27:46

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Isaiah 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

So my dear friend and Christian brother or sister, you need to know that although that group or click or person rejects you. Christ Jesus the God of all the universe and creation is right here today with His arms wide open ready to accept you to come to Him and live in His close personal fellowship.

John 6:37

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

Matthew 11:28

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 19:14

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 15:20  And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.