Rejection is not a good thing. It is not a helpful tool. It is not the pathway to peace and righteousness.
This was the context of my latest in-depth discussion with Father which brought the revelations I’ve shared in the following pages.
I saw with complete clarity that Rejection isn’t a necessary function. There aren’t times we must wield it quickly against people, situations and events. Churches shouldn’t sponsor teaching events that help us create boundaries and use Rejection effectively. It isn’t God’s pathway to clean up our lives.
Yes, He knows about evil people, evil groups, evil events, and evil things … all around us. He knows how much we want to Reject them from our life.
He even knows about using Rejection as a motivational tool to propel us into higher levels of greatness.
And secretly you knew this, too. In some quiet, flash-of-a-moment when you were contemplating the way the universe works, you sensed that something wasn’t quite right about Rejection, even in the face of its apparent necessity. It felt like having a foot on each side of a fence. One moment we’re operating in Love and the next, we’re sternly Rejecting something or someone. Suddenly we are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. We become the judge and the jury, putting everything in its appropriate box – labeling it good or bad, and then taking out the trash. Or we are being labeled the trash and ushered to the trash heap.
Yes, I know Father has accompanied us as we’ve used it, and sometimes it worked so well we were shining like a jewel afterward. But that doesn’t mean it was really a good idea. It just means that Father also loves us right where we are and He is able to fix anything, even when we are unwise. He knows we are growing up and learning better ways. He treasures our growing involvement with Him and our discovery that we haven’t figured Him out. He chuckles when we realize that we don’t have Him strapped down into a nice neat package, and that sometimes our package is not even Him at all. But He continues to walk beside us, as a loving Father, never leaving us or forsaking us, watching every step of our learning, and discovering process.
And He continues being God, walking wherever He chooses on our boxes, over our boxes, and sometimes outside of them.
So my paradox about Rejection remained unanswered in my heart for a long time. What kind of tool is it? Where is it from? And is it usable by the Kingdom?
The other day, Father began to connect the dots for me.