Rejection, we all fear it at some subconscious or unconscious level. However, many of us are unaware of where rejection takes place. Some feel that it is within the power of those whom they would desire acceptance and/or love. There are some who consider it to be a fabricated reality that exists purely in our minds. There are others who think it a reality only to be ignored and deemed insignificant when compared to grander truths. For myself, though it may yet still be an incomplete knowledge subject to further refinement through experience, I have been brought into the understanding, through Guided experience, that the rejection takes place in the heart and is a filter for what is perceived as reality by the soul.
Here's a story I present with two scenarios:
Scenario one, I am given an opportunity to interview at a prestigious location. However, I am already within the belief that I would not prefer working there. I attend the interview anyway out of curiosity for experience and am told I have considerable credentials and I seem to be a perfect fit for the work. I am pleased with this offered acceptance into this position, however, I am indifferent to actually taking this offer. I politely decline the offer, knowing my true feelings, and I go home feeling esteemed that I was offered the position anyway.
Scenario two, I attend said interview and on the spot am told that I am not suitable to work as this particular company given my credentials and experience. Still carrying the same belief as scenario one I initially am relieved of not being offered the job. Nonetheless, upon walking out of the door of the interview office I begin to consider how "I should feel", as in, what is the appropriate emotion to feel when someone does not receive something that would ordinarily be valued and desired by others. I also begin to ruminate on why I was not given the job and measure myself to standards that I do not qualify. I then begin to experience a sense of lack of not getting a job offer, not feeling accepted, and not measuring up to values/criteria I perceive that I "I should" have.
In both scenarios, an outward criterion was established. In the scenario, I was told that I measured at or above the criteria. In scenario two I was told I did not. The internal experience I felt from both scenarios was guided by an outward occurrence perceived by my heart to be a reality that sought to define my experience. Rejection occurred in scenario two when my experience was defined negatively from an event that occurred that validated the unacceptable qualities that I held and the acceptable qualities that I felt I lacked.
I was told I had but what I did and what happened to me, and I felt esteemed.
I was told I did not have based on what I did not do and what did or didn't happen to me an I felt lack.
Under this defined experiences, I encountered a subjective reality of rejection from objective facts.
In a book full of wisdom it is told that what flows out of the heart shapes our reality, the things that we experience in this life.
Proverbs 4:23
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Can I now validate that this proverb is aligned with truth? Can this understanding bring me salvation?
I can seek salvation from the things that bring forth fear and anxiety in me. My God has promised to deliver me from the hands of death.
Romans 8:31-39
Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love
31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? 36 (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”[a]) 37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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