9/30/18
"Courage After Rejection"
Abraham put both Hagar and Ishmael (the son they had together) out the house, he sent them packing...Later in the text: Hagar is found perplexed, not wanting to watch her son die, but Ishmael (her son) was found crying.
Everything going on had taken a toll on his emotions and so he was crying.
Why is it Isaac got to stay and he had to be the son to go???
Genesis 21:8-21 NIV
Beloved, Perhaps, you're asking yourself, "Why it had to be me?" And you're thinking about all the scenarios that could have been, but this....This is the way things ended up.
The rejection of it all has really set in and is having a major affect on you both emotionally and mentally....Emotionally, like Ishmael, you cry or maybe, you yell and you have a bad habit of taking your frustrations out on other people.
Mentally, you think something is wrong with you because they chose to let you go...Whoever they are and for whatever reason, they chose to let you go.
So, how do you have courage after rejection?
Meditation Points:
1.Cry, yell, punch something (and NOT someone)...Do some kind of physical action to release your feelings and not keep the hurt, the pain bottled up inside creating added stress and worry.
2. Just like Ishmael knew, it could have been Isaac instead of him...You know, there's somebody else, they could have chosen to let go of instead of you. Still, CHOOSE NOT TO TAKE IT PERSONAL.
There's an interesting passage of scripture in the book of Job.
In Job 4:3-5 NIV *paraphrasing
Eliphaz basically says to Job:
Think about how you have instructed many, how you have strengthen feeble hands, and your words supported those who stumble, but now that is happening to you...You're discouraged, you're dismayed (as if this wasn't suppose to happen to you).
3. WHY NOT ME ? That's the kind of "survivor attitude" you must have and stop taking everything so personal.
Remember: God made you, so he knows the depth of your strength, he knows your capacity level.
If God allowed you to be let go, kicked out, etc...Beloved, You are strong enough to face the rejection and not go into mental overload. He allowed it, because he knew that ultimately in the end...It would just toughen you up a bit and stretch your faith, giving you more room to receive.
4. Change your perspective....That's how you have courage after rejection. You change your perspective. You go around quoting: Romans 8:28 God makes all things work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to his purpose.
You keep quoting it UNTIL it gets down in your spirit and your spiritual eyes can see something your physical eyes can't, giving you HOPE for another day.
5. Take it one day at a time, and it helps to have someone there that can relate to what you're going through without judging you for crying, yelling, or what have you.
Ishmael had his mom there, she understood because it happened to them both. Not once, in the text does she stop him from crying or tell him not to cry...Because that was his way of processing things and what he needed to do to release his emotions, to keep him from growing up hating his dad, hating his brother.
6. Strip the pain of its label. Stop calling it rejection, even though you feel rejected; call it re-direction. God can see the bigger picture, so he knows who you need to be connected to, who you need to be associated with and what relationships you need to cut off. So he does it for you, saving you time and energy. He re-directs you because he doesn't want who you are to be overlooked.
Had Ishmael stayed in the house, his every accomplishment who have gotten overlooked, overshadowed by Isaac or compared to Isaac because of "the promise" attached to Isaac's name, just his being in general.
Ishmael wouldn't have been free to be his own man, for trying to be what pleases his dad and secretly compete with his brother.
Beloved, God doesn't want you to compete or be compared to anyone else. He even tells us in 2 Corin 10:12 NIV that kind of behavior is not wise.
7.Last but not least: In your mind, stop putting a period where God has put a comma....You have courage after rejection by not ending the process in one way or another too soon, just because you want the hurt, the anger, the bitterness, the confusion to end.
Instead, Embrace the comma and know that it's there to slow you down and show you that on the other side of it all, God has HUGE PLANS to bless you too.
In the text, God didn't just bless Isaac (the child he had promised Abraham and Sarah) but he blessed Ishmael too (later in life). YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN, even now. God will bless you too.
Father God,
Help everyone going through the rejection process to heal, to forgive, to live and to not be angry, bitter, or resentful of the process.
Help them find courage in the midst of being re-directed and to trust you, even now, especially now, when that can't understand all that you're doing.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
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LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy
Hosea 12:13 NIV
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