Rejection & Refinement

Rejection....that word feels painful and literally is. The same areas of the brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we feel physical pain. In essence, rejection actually hurts. No wonder we fear and tend to want to run from it. What if we ran into it without trepidation or apprehension? What if we turned rejection on its end and welcomed it; thinking about the word and its associated feeling in light of the outcome?

Like a rough diamond, our flaws are exposed to the artisan’s care to be marked and cleaved for a brilliant spiritual evolution. The plan of the diamantaire is to shape our hard stone hearts; bruting us into his remarkable polished gemstone.

Psalm 66:10-12
"For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver. You brought us into prison and laid burdens on our backs. You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but you brought us to a place of abundance.”

Isaiah 48:10
"See I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.”