FREEDOM/ Feb. 16th, 2014
When you hear the word REJECTION, what do you think about? A name or label that has identified you at
some point in your life? Or do you think
of those YOU reject? Maybe you think of
those rejected in our society? The poor,
dumb, smelly, outcasts, drunks, weak, ugly, too fat, too skinny, homeless,
addicts, crazies…etc.
REJECTION is one of those negative words in our lives that God
literally uses for good. If you are
feeling REJECTED today, then I have good news for you. God has specifically called the REJECTED.
This leads me to my WORD for today and it is found in 1
Corinthians 26-31; Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when God chose you. Not many of you were considered wise by human
standards. Not many of you were
powerful. Not many of you belonged to
important families. But God chose the
foolish things of the world to shame the wise.
He chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the things of this world that are
common and looked down on. He chose what
is not considered to be important to do away with what is considered to be
important. So NO ONE can brag to God. Because of what God has done, YOU belong to
Christ Jesus. He has become God’s wisdom
for us. He makes us right with God. He makes us holy and sets us FREE. It is written, “The one who brags should brag
about what the Lord has done.”
God needs the weak, the lowly, the REJECTED. Why?
Because, everybody who is REJECTED by the world’s standards, needs to be
set FREE. And God came JUST to set you
and me FREE. My WORD for today is
FREE! Replace all those rejections in
your head with FREE. God has come to set
you FREE. If you sit around and brag
about yourself and how smart you are, or powerful, or rich, God doesn’t accept
your bragging. Therefore, the high and
lofty, proud and judgemental, the ones who REJECT God’s chosen, are actually
the ones REJECTED by God.
God has come to set you FREE from worldly REJECTION. Lay those rejections right down at the feet
of Jesus, the Son of the God of the universe who has come to set you FREE. NO ONE has the right to reject YOU. If they think they do, then they themselves
are REJECTED by God. He has CHOSEN YOU
and you belong to Christ Jesus if you want to belong to Him.
Here’s the cool factor, the word FREE, means God gives you the
FREEDOM to choose Him. If in this
FREEDOM you choose His life to set you FREE from all that stuff that keeps you
in chains, if you trade your JUNK for his HOLYINESS, and your WRONGS with His
RIGHTS (v. 30) then he takes what is sin, what is weak in you and makes you
STRONG in HIM! This is why all you will
have to brag about is what the Lord has done for YOU.
I’m tired of the WORLD’s
REJECTION in my life. I’m tired
of being chained to words and labels that don’t truly define who I am. I AM A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH KING! If you believe this, I pray you will CLAIM it
with me today. I challenge you today to
join me by taking your REJECTIONS and replacing them with FREEDOM in Jesus Christ. The REDEEMER of REJECTION.
HUGS! SMJ
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