Posted by Glenn Riley
Written by Ian Taylor
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I used to believe that rejection meant something was wrong with me.
That I wasn’t enough.
Not strong enough.
Not good enough.
Not… something enough.
Like many people searching for love, I put my heart out there more than once. I gave the best of myself. I hoped. I waited. And still — the door closed. The silence came. The goodbye lingered longer than the love ever did.
And for a long time, I let those wounds define me.
But then I opened my Bible.
And I began to see something I hadn’t seen before:
> “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”
(Isaiah 53:3)
Even Jesus — perfect, blameless, loving — was rejected.
Not just once. Not just by strangers. But by people He healed. People He taught. People He loved.
If even the Son of God was turned away, then rejection can’t be proof that we’re unlovable.
In fact, maybe it’s just proof that we love deeply — and that some things aren’t meant to stay.
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I want to share something personal.
There was a woman I truly cared for. I thought she might be the one.
We spoke of dreams, faith, a future. But over time, things faded.
Her silence spoke what her words didn’t: I wasn’t her answer.
And as hard as it was to accept, I eventually realized — maybe she wasn’t mine either.
Because that rejection, that ache…
It sent me straight into the arms of Someone who’s never turned me away.
> “Though my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me.”
(Psalm 27:10)
In the quiet after heartbreak, I found a different kind of love — steady, unconditional, unshakable.
Not the fireworks kind, but the kind that stays. The kind that heals. The kind that whispers, “I’ve loved you all along.”
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Rejection will always sting.
But it doesn’t mean you’re broken.
It might just mean you’re being protected — and redirected.
Maybe the heartbreak was mercy.
Maybe the goodbye was grace.
Maybe the closed door was God saying, “That’s not the love I planned for you.”
Because the greatest love story you’ll ever live…
Is the one where you realize you were already chosen.
> “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.”
(Jeremiah 31:3)
If you’re nursing a bruised heart today — know this:
You are not your rejection.
You are God’s beloved.
And your story isn’t over — it’s just rerouted toward something far more eternal.
With peace,
Ian
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