Have you had your JOY JUICE today? Don’t save it for special occasions only!
It’s what we need every day of the year.
During Christmas we talk a lot about the birth
of a baby named Jesus. But let’s not forget that baby soon grew into a man….and
he went about teaching people “truth”.
Luke 4:14-15 tells us: “Jesus returned to Galilee
in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the whole
countryside. He taught in their
synagogues, and everyone praised him.”
If we were
to stop reading there, we might think that everyone loved Jesus….that
everywhere he went, people thought he was wonderful and believed that He was
who he said he was. BUT when we continue to read in that very same chapter of Luke,
we find that when he went “home”…to Nazareth
where he had been brought up as a young boy…he was rejected.
Have you
ever felt rejected? Rejection is hard to
accept. It hurts. It crushes our spirit. We begin to doubt our self worth when we are
rejected by others. When you find
yourself in this unfortunate set of circumstances where you experience
rejection, think of Jesus and know that He truly understands.
Isaiah 53:3 tells us: “He was despised and rejected by men, a man
of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their
faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
Where’s the joy in
rejection? It's in knowing that Jesus
understands our hurt and that HE will never leave us or forsake us!
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