When you are rejected …
Remember that you are entering into the Lord’s own sufferings.
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.13
For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.14
God allows rejection to come into our lives so that we may have the painful privilege of sharing in the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings. Through such sufferings, we understand more about our Lord and how He felt in His own afflictions.
Rejection from fellow Christians is part of that fellowship.
The Christian life is a reliving of the life of Jesus. So your destiny is His experience.
While we don’t experience His deity or His atoning sacrifice (both of which are unique to Him), we do enter into His sufferings, His death, His resurrection, and His ascension to heaven.
The Christian life holds for you all that it held for Christ.
This is from “God’s Favorite Place on Earth” by Frank Viola author