February 6, 2014 Accepted Or Rejected (1)
Thursday February 6, 2014
There are three feelings humans must have in order to be healthy. They are: 1) I belong; 2) I have worth; 3) I am adequate and/or competent. Feelings of rejection say the opposite of each of these.
God’s sacrifice of His only Son for our redemption from sin, clearly speaks of how precious and valuable we are to Him. The death and resurrection of Jesus forever guarantees our acceptance by God. When we choose to make Jesus the Lord of our lives, God acknowledges us as His children. God is our Father. We are His cherished children. We belong.
“But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:12 NLT)
I HAVE WORTH: We have worth because God created and cares for us. We are precious in His sight. God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten son into it to pay the price for our sin. Silver and gold was not precious enough to redeem us. Only Jesus the sinless Lamb of God was precious enough to pay the price of sin. So, regardless of what others may think or tell you, God’s word proclaims you have value. That’s what counts! We are HIS workmanship and HE is a skilled craftsman.
“Make sure no outsider who now follows God ever has occasion to say, 'God put me in second-class. I don't really belong.' And make sure no physically mutilated person is ever made to think, 'I'm damaged goods. I don't really belong.'” (Isaiah 56:3 MSG)
I AM ADEQUATE/COMPETENT: We are so much more than what is noticed on the skin surface of our lives. At the deepest place of our being God speaks truth. In order to belong, have worth, and experience competence, we need simply to believe and affirm what God says. Believing is a choice. Growing confident as one who is “accepted in the beloved” is the result of consciously speaking truth to our own soul until our emotions agree. God has already established our worth and our place in His heart forever. Through Jesus this is done. We belong. We are accepted.
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. (Acts 17:26-30 NKJV)
When we repent of our sins we are never again rejected but are accepted as children of our Heavenly Father. What a heritage we have!
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