Singing Psalm 43 for hope when you are feeling rejected
- Jun 3, 2022
- 6 min read
Updated: Jan 22
Singing Psalm 43 when feeling rejected you find out that rejection is temporary
Yesterday you were shunned, chastised, impoverished, feeling rejected, uninvited, and unfriended.
Today you are welcomed to not only attend but be a guest of honor. All your debts are canceled. You enter into a decorated feast complete with the finest fellowship. You are embraced as you dance with your beloved to the most excellent music.
You went from pauper to prince or princess overnight. You were parched and dry as in a famine. Now every sense is filled with delightful sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and you are given the right hand of fellowship.
Such a 180 degree turn is experienced by all those oppressed who trust in Jesus, who long to make their home with the triune God.
Singing Psalm 43 when feeling rejected you find out that you can outlast the thoughts and emotions that rejection brings
As you endure trials, you might be feeling rejected by those who you thought loved you and even by God himself in the middle of intense pain. You were made to talk with your Father, and so you simply switch positions from the self-reliant room that you might be in right now.
You move to another room within the house of your mind’s eye, or better yet outdoors where you can look up and see perhaps clouds but no ceiling. You perceive the heavens are far beyond what can be seen. You open up to him that you are feeling rejected and bring him your questions, concerns, fears, and doubts.
Although you question him, God answers you with hope. He is not daunted or put off that you are feeling rejected. You remember that he was rejected both by you and for you. You look forward to praising him again.
By faith, you take possession of him who is your God and your sure salvation. You can see and taste his goodness by faith that will one day be by sight.
Until then, you eagerly await the return of the bridegroom when he comes for his bride. He will take you to the wedding feast he has been preparing for you as a part of his bride, his church.
He will leave nothing to be desired that will not be filled to overflowing. You respond with tears of joy that he sees you as pure, lovely, and completely desirable.
Singing Psalm 43 when feeling rejected you find out that rejection turns into acceptance and sweetens it
What will be completed when Jesus returns has already begun as God sends his light and truth to lead you to himself. He has become your exceeding joy amidst sorrow and suffering.
You see your sin and are grieved, but you no longer are feeling rejected. You believe him when he said that those who mourn are blessed for they shall be comforted.
Though you are not yet comforted you are blessed in your mourning for knowing that you indeed will be comforted. You believe that he rewards you as you seek him. This pleases him more than you know.
You are seeking Jesus, the light of the world. No one and nothing can hold a candle to the light of the world!
June 3, 2022
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Heart ♥️ reflection
March 5, 2025
“And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.” ~ Numbers 15:39
Question: How is the Lord preparing me to be a part of his bride?
Heart reflection: Jesus has given you his word to help you keep your eyes on him and his commandments before you. You are becoming careful not to neglect or reject them, yet when you fall short, you trust Jesus not to reject you but to care for you and to redeem you. He gives you his Holy Spirit who guides you through the process of giving your heart to Jesus so that you are following him more and more closely as time moves on. He is your perfect bridegroom leading, purifying, protecting, and supernaturally preparing you as part of his very body, his church, his bride to take you to his home blessed by his Father. He is transforming you to be ready to live in a new and blissful world together with and true to him forever. It is astounding that Jesus would deny himself to death, teach you to deny yourself, and turn your inclination away from self and toward him who was resurrected to live in you. As you look to worship your creator as God, what awaits you is fully satisfying, everlasting pleasure with no feelings of guilt or shame attached to ruin it. Each one of his human creatures were made in his image, yet he calls and prepares those who would trust his care and love to be his bride.
“O send Your light forth and Your truth,
And let them be my guide,
To lead me to Your holy hill,
The place where You abide.“ ~ Psalm 43:3
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The Psalms—Q&A
“Why have You cast me off?”
“Why must I go about in grief while foes oppress and scoff?”
“O why are you cast down, my soul?”
“Why so discouraged be?” ~ Psalm 43
“For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man?” ~ Galatians 1:10a
How can singing Psalm 43 help me grow in my affection for God and in my connection with others?
“With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.” ~ 1 Peter 4:4-5
You might be maligned not only for abstaining from wild living but for refusing to negatively label and cut off those with whom you disagree. Many will applaud you and turn a blind eye to the double standard when you view yourself as the victim and villainize loved ones for being sinners as if you are not one. Those are the very ones who will then view you as weak when you shed the hypocrisy and seek reconciliation. Whose approval will you seek?* Which audience will you pursue, that of God or that of man?**
“…for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.” ~ John 12:43
“If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” ~ Galatians 1:10b
To whom do I belong? To myself or to Jesus? Who then gets to call the shots on how I ought to live?
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” ~ 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
You embrace the Lord, no longer fearing the pull to defend yourself. You resist the lure of people pleasing for self-promotion.
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” ~ Galatians 2:20
If you’ve ever tried networking with Jesus, how did that turn out? Have you ever called on Jesus wanting to get to know him as much as telemarketers want to get to know you when they call you?
“Christian faith is not a negotiation but a surrender…[And] our greatest motive for surrendering to him cannot be for what he will do in us. It must be to love him for what he did for us. ~ Tim Keller
“For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.” ~ Romans 7:5-6
“When they deliver you over, do not be anxious how you are to speak or what you are to say, for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” ~ Matthew 10:19-20
Engage and grow together!
“Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.” ~ Proverbs 27:17
January 23, 2025
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