Mirror Mirror On the
Wall
Three
Wonderful Benefits that resulted from
struggling with Rejection:
(1) I lost confidence
in my strength to save myself. Are
you still fighting to save your own
happiness? Trying to save your
marriage or another relationship you
cherish with the strength or
ingenuity of your own power? Dear
heart – God alone has the
strength to satisfy and save us.
(2) I became desperate
for God. If you’re not desperate
for God’s help, if you still
think something you can do, say or be
will make you valuable enough to turn
your havoc into happiness when you
are not yet desperate for God. And
rescue comes to those who cry out.
(3) I was positioned
by my pain for the rescue of love I
had been waiting for all my life.
Each wave of rejection pushed me
closer and closer to the rock of my
salvation. Pain drove me to Jesus.
Your Part
As
God’s unconditional love
restores your reflection, do these
five things:
(1) Forgive those
who hurt you. In obedience, you
must chose to face the reality that
those you love may never express love
for you in return. From the painful
place, forgive them for hurting you.
Forgiveness is not difficult –
it’s a choice. When you
tell God that you are willing, He
will give you the continual power to
do it. Princess of Heaven, never
allow bitterness to show its face in
your mirror.
(2) Believe you are
loved by your parent on the authority
of God’s Truth. I have
instinctively placed love within the
heart of every parent for every
child. You have confused being loved,
with feeling loved. When you
don’t feel it, you assume that
you aren’t. And you blame it on
your own unworthiness. It’s the
belief that you aren’t loved
that brings the stinging pain of
rejection. And that belief is a lie.
Your pain comes from another’s
inability to express love, in a way
that can be felt. That inability
exists because of crippling
experiences in their past. Though you
may not feel it you are loved by your
parents. If you will accept this
truth, you will receive healing
from the pain of rejection. Isaiah
49:15 “Can a mother forget her
little child and not have love for
her own son? ‘Yet even if that
should be, I will not forget
you.”
(3) Accept
God’s Truth that you are
irreplaceable as a wife. Between
spouses there is an emotional bond,
stronger than any romantic love. It
is imparted to every couple, at the
altar of marriage. It can’t be
broken, even by divorce. It is My
guarantee that no one else will ever
be better suited to serve in your
position as a help-mate. The pain of
rejection, in marriage, comes from
the lie that someone else can do a
better job. The inescapable bond to
you, in the life of your mate, is
proof that you are irreplaceable. If
you have been willing to submit to Me
and any changes I have required, any
separation is due to another’s
sin. Your feelings of worthlessness
and rejection are based on
Satan’s lie. How could you, as
My child believe it.
(4) Understand His
purpose behind your Divine Design by
discovering your particular
Motivational Gift. The
motivational gifts are listed in
Romans 6. And we all have one
predominant one. Our motivational
gift is the avenue by which Jesus
serves others through our life. And
it’s our service to God with the
gift He has given us that brings the
very satisfaction we’re looking
for in a romantic relationship.
(5) Use the gift
He’s given you.
There’s no feeling of
satisfaction on Earth like the
feeling of purpose that comes from
watching Jesus put you on and serve
the needs of the world He loves.
Nothing in life or love compares to
it. Romans 15:18, (AMP) “I
will not venture (presume) to
speak…of any work except what
Christ has actually done through me
(as an instrument in His
hands)…”
II Corinthians 3:18, “…we
can be mirrors that brightly reflect
the glory of the Lord. And as the
Spirit of the Lord works within us,
we become more and more like
Him.”
The shining glory of
God will ever increasingly take over
our reflection once we choose to live
for the approval of Jesus alone. And
no princess can gaze at the
developing image of Jesus’ face
in her reflection and not be happy
with what she sees! II Corinthians
4:7 describes this beauty secret: “But
this precious treasure, this light
and power that now shine within us,
is held in a perishable
container… Everyone can see that
the glorious power within must be
from God and not our own.”
