REJECTION

Monday of Third Sunday of Lent Year C Luke 4:24-30 Have you felt rejected by those closest to you? The irony of life is like this: sometime those who are close to you are sometimes the first one who will criticise and spread gossip about you. The mouth who praise you are sometimes same mouth who will cursed you. There will be moments in our life that we have more rejections than acceptance. There will be lots of instances that we will received two fingers (not the thumbs but the middle one.) Keep this in mind, when you are rejected don’t be discouraged. When people don’t like you, do not think that you are not good enough. You are actually awesome but they failed to see it because they were blinded by their bias and pride. Rejections happened because your haters think they are better than you, your critics think they are more knowledgeable than you. Be glad when you are rejected because most of the great people in the Bible are the rejected. God loves the reject. Finally, I love what Jesus did in the gospel. When he was rejected he passed through their midst AND WENT AWAY. Friends, when people dont accept you, dont force for acceptance. If they dont like you, then move away. If they show no interest then stay far off. Don’t force them! If you live for people acceptance, you will die from their rejections. The most powerful motivation is rejection. See rejection as redirection. Blessings Fr. Jhack