One of the greatest human fears is that of rejection. Yet it is unavoidable, it is indeed a part of living in a broken world with broken people. We are reminded of one who can identify with us here, Christ Jesus the LORD. He came into the world he made, and he was rejected. He came as a member of God's covenant people and he was rejected. This is not the end of his identification with the brokenness of human kind. He also accepted our rejection before God. He who knew no sin became sin. Jesus took upon himself the wrath of God that was due humankind for our rebellion against our Maker. That is why we can call him Savior, he accepted the rejection that was rightly ours so, that we might be accepted. That is the story of Calvary, Christ was forsaken, so that we do not have to be. And this is the greatest news of all time, indeed it is the Gospel; that we who naturally reject God have been restored by God's merciful provisional of Christ for us. I pray that we may know the power of the grace and truth of Christ today!

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
(John 1:9-14)