In my own life, I experienced so much rejection that growing up I just became this person that hid within myself. I wouldn’t look people in the eye. I wouldn’t speak for fear of rejection, I was afraid to let people see me.
You, like me, may have experienced the crushing below of rejection and the pain that goes with it. But today I want to look at Ephesians 1:5 and how God decided beforehand, before you were even on this earth, that He wanted you to be His child.
Ephesians 1:5
Ephesians 1:5 in the new King James version reads, “having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will.”
God Chose You
Others may have rejected you, but God chose you before the foundation of the world to be His own, and He didn’t do it out of obligation either.
It made Him very happy to bring you into His family. You didn’t do anything to earn this. It is God’s choice to make you His own.
You can certainly agree with God’s choice, come into His kingdom and walk according to the Word and according to the prompting of His spirit, but know that you did not have to work for this.
It simply made God happy to make you His own.
So many times, when we’ve experienced rejection, we don’t want to let people in to see who we really are for fear that we’ll experience even more rejection.
But God already saw who you are, into the very deepest depths of your soul and He happily chose you to be His.
1 John 3:1
There are so many verses in the Bible about us being a child of God, but one of my favorites is First John 3:1 in the New King James version.
“Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God.”
God loves you.
God knows you.
God calls you,
God chose you.
God is happy to call you His own.
No one can take that away from you.
No person rejecting you can change the fact that God chose you. It is not that person who has rejected you’s will and purpose that will stand.
The purpose of God for your life is what will stand.
It was decided before that person who rejected you even had a thought.
They don’t get a say, only God’s purpose is what matters.
And He chose you before the foundation of the world.
Everything else will have to bow to the will of your Father in Heaven.
So, when you feel that sting of rejection, whether it’s in the present or from past wounds, remind yourself that God knew you fully when He chose you, and it is only His purpose in your life that will stand. Praise and thank God that He knows you fully and it made Him happy to choose you as His own.
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