Rejection can be good?

Thursday - 2/8 - Read John 1:1-14

As you partook of the bread and the cup at communion last Sunday, were you able to invite Jesus into your rejection you're experiencing?

When you think of the bread and the cup and how they are to help us remember what the Lord did for us on the Cross, do you think of rejection? How? Why?

How did God take the rejection His Son experienced and turn it around and use it for good?

List three or four ways Christ's rejection became something good for you?

Parents, when your children are rejected, what is our natural tendency?

Could we possibly short-circuit valuable life-lessons by reacting to quickly to keep our children from the affects of rejections?

If you are in the midst of suffering rejection, are you looking for God to do something in your life that can only happen through the rejection?

Would you pray and ask God for the strength to endure the rejection and the wisdom to discern God's purpose for it?

Read Malachi 2:10-16 in preparation for next Sunday.