Emotional wound Series – Rejection/Abandonment

The wound of rejection and/or abandonment go deep. You may have experienced rejection from friends, people at church or your own family.  According to Psychology Today, “Rejection piggybacks on physical pain pathways in the brain. MRI studies show that the same areas of the brain become activated when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain. This is why rejection hurts so much (neurologically speaking).

First step to healing is to forgive those who have rejected or abandoned you.  
“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Mathew 6:14

Second, renew your mind, “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12:2

You renew your mind by allowing God’s word to wash over you, sanctify you.  God’s word says to think on good things.  When you reject the bad and think on the good, the brain’s pathways are changed.   “You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26:3

Third, ask the Lord to heal your heart and bind up the wounds. (Psalm 147:3).

Remember, Jesus took all on the cross for us.  He not only experienced the physical pain on the cross, but he also experienced the emotional pain.  When it says by His wounds you are healed.  It is finished. There was an exchange on the cross.  Jesus was rejected so you could be accepted. (Isaiah 53:3-4)

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 2 Cor 4:8-10