Hello all,
Rejection is "the absence of meaningful love. Being rejected doesn't mean that there's no love involved, but that, for one reason or another, it's not fulfilling or edifying love." ~ Charles Solomon
There are some movements in Christianity which believe the acceptance found in Christ's love frees one from all need for acceptance from others and thus all potential rejection. Whether or not you agree, you must admit that we have been called to love one another. The love I speak of is not love found in the world. Even though love found in the world is powerful, God's love transcends this worldly love, because only His love can descend the depths required to truly touch the human spirit and raise it to heights which surpass the human experience. Christ is the source of love which all humans crave, and those who are united with His Spirit are led by that same Spirit to love with resources beyond their natural means. I define a Christian not as someone who professes a belief, but rather as someone whose life has become united with Christ's. The Spirit of Christ in the Christian leads them to love others, and He will do so by showing how to love others in ways meaningful to them. So, Christian, is the life of Christ in you leading you to love others, or are you withholding that love?
For those who feel rejected: the Spirit of Christ wants you to enjoy union with Him as your Source, but He has also given you others through which He demonstrates His love. He has given you both, and that is proof that you need both. If you feel rejected, it's because you have either looked to those who are not enabled, at least in the moment, to love you through the Spirit of Christ, or you haven't listened to Christ within you. Know that you are loved, and the Spirit is, in some fashion or another, besieging the fortress you have built around yourself to protect you from rejection and pain. Open up your gates and let Him in. He and those He gives you will then lovingly help you demolish your prison fortress. As you begin this process, and it will be painful, you will discover that you were never truly alone: Christ's Spirit has been with you all along, even in your cell of torture and artificial happiness; it's just that your captors hid your eyes from seeing Him.
Grace=Peace,
Jeremy
Rejection is "the absence of meaningful love. Being rejected doesn't mean that there's no love involved, but that, for one reason or another, it's not fulfilling or edifying love." ~ Charles Solomon
There are some movements in Christianity which believe the acceptance found in Christ's love frees one from all need for acceptance from others and thus all potential rejection. Whether or not you agree, you must admit that we have been called to love one another. The love I speak of is not love found in the world. Even though love found in the world is powerful, God's love transcends this worldly love, because only His love can descend the depths required to truly touch the human spirit and raise it to heights which surpass the human experience. Christ is the source of love which all humans crave, and those who are united with His Spirit are led by that same Spirit to love with resources beyond their natural means. I define a Christian not as someone who professes a belief, but rather as someone whose life has become united with Christ's. The Spirit of Christ in the Christian leads them to love others, and He will do so by showing how to love others in ways meaningful to them. So, Christian, is the life of Christ in you leading you to love others, or are you withholding that love?
For those who feel rejected: the Spirit of Christ wants you to enjoy union with Him as your Source, but He has also given you others through which He demonstrates His love. He has given you both, and that is proof that you need both. If you feel rejected, it's because you have either looked to those who are not enabled, at least in the moment, to love you through the Spirit of Christ, or you haven't listened to Christ within you. Know that you are loved, and the Spirit is, in some fashion or another, besieging the fortress you have built around yourself to protect you from rejection and pain. Open up your gates and let Him in. He and those He gives you will then lovingly help you demolish your prison fortress. As you begin this process, and it will be painful, you will discover that you were never truly alone: Christ's Spirit has been with you all along, even in your cell of torture and artificial happiness; it's just that your captors hid your eyes from seeing Him.
Grace=Peace,
Jeremy
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