Romans 15: 7, "Therefore, accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God."
Ephesians 1: 3-10, "3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5he predestined usb for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9making knownc to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
When we have a horizontal view of seeking acceptance, within the "in crowd" and popular inner circles, and find nothing but rejection, there is a tendency to loose faith and have a sense of insecurity, worthlessness and despair of dejection. How do you deal with seeing yourself always being in the outer circles and never in with the in crowd? Sometimes it is very easy to project rejection onto God, and think that God rejects you because you are treated with contempt, hatred, rejection by the in crowd, and think that because the popular People in harmony with each other, reject you, that God is rubbing shoulder's with them and is rejecting you also!
Maybe you are overlooked in a position and rejected to fill a job opening dejection will come hard and it is easy to think that because you are rejected to fill a job or a post, or an opening, that God rejects you too! So loosing faith in such circumstances, can tempt you to distant your relationship with God, because you do not feel that God accepts you because the majority rejects you. In such circumstances, it is to believe a lie about God and your standing before Him in His Son.
Here is the truth and bottom line, God's acceptance of you in His Son is not based on any circumstances of rejection or acceptance by others toward you. Regardless of what you go through in life, His ways are not man's ways, He is so much higher than our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His plan of acceptance toward us is not based on anything in any circumstances or criterion based on our efforts, merits or standards, but is based on this eternal constancy that always remains, it is based on His grand plan and purpose according to the good pleasure of His will before the foundation of the World, to choose His people in adoption as son's and daughters in the Blood of His Son! This standing never changes or fades away according to the whims and discontent of man. This standing is established in the heavens for you to receive His grace in your heart that such a blessed standing be real and established in your heart for all eternity. Remember, this one blessed truth, being a believer in Christ Jesus, being in Christ Jesus and having full confidence upon the Rock of your Salvation will never loose such footing that such standing will never fall into rejection by God. For God the Father's favor upon you is never viewed by man's disfavor and rejection of you, for His favor rests upon you always in His Son, and this can never be overturned or changed by the will or purpose of man's intent and by the in crowd's rejecting of you or their disfavor on you, for God's favor will never change to disfavor in His Son, when you are in Christ Jesus, God's favor will always abide on you, He always accepts you in His Beloved, in His Son and nothing can change that fact of His Love and acceptance of you in His Son, and nothing can change God's opinion of you in His Son and nothing can turn His acceptance of you in His Son into rejection and disfavor.
Since God's Favor always abides on you in His Son, since God always accepts you in His Son, how much more should you run to His embrace of Love and acceptance, when circumstances of rejection try to offset your balance and standing of Acceptance in Jesus Christ before God? Do not let the disfavor, discontent and rejection of man and the In Crowd throw you off your standing and rip you from God's hold and loving embrace and acceptance of you, for nothing can rip you a way from God embrace and acceptance of you in His Son!
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