2-Timothy_1-7-1: For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind

Everyone suffers an occasional rejection. Some high school seniors
don’t get into their college of choice. Many a college graduate
doesn’t get the dream job he or she had counted on. Suitors are turned
down. Social slights abound.

Some people so internalize the rejections they encounter that they
become paralyzed by life. They abandon their dreams. They settle for less than God intended with their lives. They give up and resign
themselves to mediocrity. They allow the judgments other people pass on them to define them. What a shame!

1-Corinthians_15-58: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord

Imagine the difference that would have been made in our world if
certain people had accepted others’ rejection of them as the final word on their worth.

Beethoven’s music teacher said he was “hopeless” at composing. The Wright brothers were ridiculed for their dream of a flying machine. Albert Einstein was feared to be mentally retarded as a child. Martin Luther King was born to a culture that had institutionalized racism to make people like him “stay in their place.”

You’ve no doubt seen pictures of Michelangelo’s David. Maybe you’ve stood in front of it and marveled at its flawless lines. Many judge it to be the world’s most perfect piece of sculpture.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

The masterpiece that is David was carved from a single block of marble that two other artists had already discarded for its imperfections! And so it might have been with the historical figure himself. When God sent his prophet to anoint the next king for Israel, neither Samuel nor the family patriarch to whom God had sent him considered David to be in the running. He wasn’t even invited in from the fields to meet
the visiting holy man. He was, after all, just a boy tending sheep.

The David story contains this marvelous line: “The Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart”. Just as Michelangelo would later see
possibilities for a flawed block of marble others had discarded, God
saw possibilities for a raw young man for whom others appear not to
have forecast greatness.

A rejected marble block in Michelangelo’s hands yielded artistic brilliance. A slighted youth in God’s hands became the legendary King of Israel. So why should you let life’s slights and rejections define you?

In the hands of The Master, you still have infinite possibilities before you to prove the critics wrong.

“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us – yes, establish the work of our hands.” (Psalm
90:17)

Source: The Daily Encourager
May God Bless Nigeria, America And Israel And Take Care Of Us; May God Make His Face Shine Upon Us, And Be Gracious To Us; May The Lord Lift Up His Countenance Upon Us, And Give Us Peace, In Jesus Christ Name, We Pray! Amen!

May The Grace The Lord Jesus Christ, And The Love Of God, And The Fellowship Of The Holy Spirit Be With You All. Amen!