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…