Has God rejected us? A plea for restoration.
Category Archives: Walking in the Word
ACAD – Rejection: Ezekiel 5
Jerusalem’s disobedience in the sight of surrounding nations that had always rejected God’s statutes receives a punitive sentence. “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are more turbulent than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in my statutes or obeyed my rules, and have not even acted according to the rules of the nations that are all around you, therefore… Behold, I, even I, am against you. And I will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.”
ACAD – Rejected: Jeremiah 6
Jerusalem rejects God’s law, He promises destruction to the city. “I have made you a tester and a refiner among my people so that you may know and test their ways. They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly. The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; in vain the refining goes on, for the wicked are not removed. They are called “rejected silver,” for the Lord has rejected them.”
ACAD – Rejected: Psalm 118
God’s steadfast love endures forever
ACAD – Rejected: Psalm 108
With God we will do valiantly. “Awake, my soul! I will awake the dawn. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples, and I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your steadfast love is higher than the heavens and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Be exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth.
ACAD – Rejected: Psalm 89
Cast down and rejected but not removed from God’s steadfast love and faithfulness – God’s promise to David’s line. “He shall cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation!’ I will make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. Forever I will keep my steadfast love for him, and my covenant with him will stand firm. I will establish his line forever, and his throne as long as the heavens endure.”
Devotional: Prayer for His People
Jesus didn’t ask God to take believers out of the world but instead to use them in the world. Because Jesus sends us into the world, we should not try to escape from the world, nor should we avoid all relationships with non-Christians. We are called to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13-16), and we are to do the work that God sent us to do. A follower of Christ becomes set apart through believing and obeying the Word of God.
ACAD – Rejection: Psalm 66
God has not rejected prayer or removed His everlasting love from us. “Come and see what God has done: He is awesome in His deeds among mortals.”
ACAD – Rejection: Psalm 43
Prayer for vindication and salvation while feeling hopeless and rejected. “Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are deceitful and unjust deliver me!”
ACAD – Rejection: 1 Samuel 16
David Anointed as King The Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel. Fill your horn with oil and set out; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.” Samuel said, “HowContinueContinue reading “ACAD – Rejection: 1 Samuel 16”