Rejection can be seen as many things. The one things that we tend to not see it as protection. Protection from something that would block us from God's will in our lives. Over and over have I experienced rejection in my own life and viewed it as a terrible thing in my life. Looking back on things now I see it as God directing me to where I am now.
In the midst of a huge season of rejection in my own life, I'm trying to re-adjust my thinking to see it as a protection instead of a negative moment in my life. It's not easy. I spend a lot of time wondering why people don't like me. Why am I so terrible that someone wouldn't want to spend the time with me? My mindset had to be adjusted and over the past 2 weeks it's been a huge. Don't get me wrong, I still have my moments where I am completely weak.
There are many books about the battlefield of the mind and trying to retrain our brain to think correctly. You know, the hardest thing that we have to re-adjust is our mind. How we view all things. Example. I auditioned for Elevation Worship. I haven't heard anything back yet and started to get really discouraged. I know that I'm a gifted singer.
Instead of sitting in my living room crying over and over about being rejected I could be excited that there is something that God wants to do with me. I could be thrilled about what area that God wants to move in my life next or sit and cry a river. I could hang onto this 'rejection' long enough to ruin the next 3 years of my life until I hit another rejection to ruin the following 3 years. It's just stupid.
When you are faced with rejection start looking at it differently. Stop spending your time crying about how someone messed up your entire life with their actions and start retraining your brain to think differently. We can't control peoples actions, but we can control our reaction to those things.
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