Rejection

All of us have been rejected at some time by one source or another.  For example, we could be promoting a product or sharing our faith with others and they reject our overture.  However, it is what we do with rejection that will determine whether we remain defeated or are victorious.  Mothers who are carrying babies in their wombs and have not dealt with rejection in the lives can pass it on to their unborn children.  This is known as heredity rejection.  Some other causes of rejection in children are as follows:
1. An unwanted pregnancy, where the child is not loved and welcomed.
2. An attempted abortion during pregnancy.
3. The separation and divorce of parents.
4. A parent spending long periods away from the family or both parents working.
5. Lack of physical love and discipline.
6. Constant criticism by parents or authority figure.
7. Adoption.

Some of the symptoms of rejection are:
1. A baby refusing the mother's breast milk.
2. A child does not show love or respond to being loved.
3. Rebellion and disobedience which resists discipline.
4. Being quick to get angry with little outward cause.
5. Insecurity and lack of self-confidence.
6. Always looking for acceptance.

Hallelujah! The power of rejection has been broken at the cross of Calvary.  Isaiah tells us concerning Christ that He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering (Is 53:3).  Christ took upon Himself the rejection that we face and gave us in its place His love and forgiveness.  Many times, deep-seated problems could be traced to the root of rejection in our lives.  Unless this is dealt with, we are dealing only with the symptoms.  I was talking to a parent today about his child who suffered from some eating disorder but is now on the road to recovery.  He is still monitoring his daughter closely and praying for her.  The parent was working overseas and away from the family for quite a period of time, coming back occasionally during the last few years.  Could the eating disorder be a symptom of a deeper cause?  As I spoke to the parent, I told him to bind the spirit of mind control in the child.  Certainly our minds can be a devil's playground if we are not careful and start entertaining thoughts that come by way of the mass media.  I am praying that the child would be completely set free and healed of her physical disorder.