Tanggap Tayo ng Diyos
Minsan sa buhay natin, makakaramdam tayo ng rejection. Maaari tayong maka-experience ng feeling of rejection or feeling na nag-iisa kapag nasaktan tayo ng taong malapit sa atin o di kaya nakaranas tayo ng broken relationship. Ngunit ang Good News ay, God heals our pain, tanggap at mahal Niya tayo unconditionally.
Ang Pain ng Rejection
(3) So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
(4) Now he had to go through Samaria.
(5) So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
(6) Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
(7) When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
(8) (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
(9) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )
(10) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
(11) “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
(12) Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
(13) Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
(14) but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(15) The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
(16) He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
(17) “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
(18) The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
(19) “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
(20) Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
(21) “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
(22) You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
(23) Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
(24) God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
(25) The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
(26) Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
(27) Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
(28) Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
(29) “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”
Basahin ang John 4:3-29 at sagutan ang mga katanungan
Sa dahilan na siya ay rejected sa kanilang lugar sa pagkakaroon ng maraming asawa, ang babae ay nagpunta sa balon ng mag-isa sa mainit na tanghali.
(7) When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
(8) (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
(9) The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )
Bakit nagulat ang babae kay Jesus?
Sa buhay natin, ano ang pwedeng mangyari na maaring maging cause ng feeling of rejection?
Ano ang mga pwedeng bunga ng feeling rejected?
Anu-ano ang ginagawa ng mga tao para sila’y tanggapin ng iba?
Paano naipakita ni Jesus na tinanggap niya ang babae?
Na-reject din si Jesus
Isaiah 53:3 (NIV)
(3) He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
1 Peter 2:4 (NIV)
(4) As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—
Paano natin malalaman na naiintindihan ni Jesus ang ating feelings about rejection?
Paano natin mao-overcome ang rejection?
Ayon sa kuwento sa John 4, nagbago ang buhay ng babae nang siya ay mag-desisyon na maniwala sa mga sinabi ni Jesus. Gawin natin ang mga steps na ito at isa-buhay ang mga verses.
1. Tanggapin ang unconditional love ni God–
(4) For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love
(5) he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
(6) to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
2. Ipagpalit ang iyong mga pangangailangan sa “Living Water” ni God–
(14) but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
(15) The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
3. Magsaya dahil ikaw ay naging anak ng Diyos!–
(6) Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “ Abba, Father.”
(7) So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.
Ask a Friend
Nakaranas ka ba na ma-reject?
Paano mo malalaman na tanggap ka ng Diyos?
Application
As we pray, hilingin natin sa Diyos na i-search nya ang ating puso at ipakita nya ang anumang rejection na pwedeng makaapekto sa ating buhay. Tandaan natin na tanggap tayo ng Diyos at mahal nya tayo at kaya nya tayong pagalingin sa pain of rejection.
Prayer Model
Lord Jesus, salamat dahil mahal at tanggap Mo ako. Binibigay ko sa iyo ang anuman feeling ng rejection at hinihiling ko na pagalingin mo ako, habang pinapatawad ko ang mag taong nakasakit sakin. Salamat dahil ako ay ginawa mong Iyong anak.
Key Verse
“Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
