Beloved. Most of you have felt rejection at some time in your life. Many of you have been treated unfairly by a corrupt and evil world. Many have had unbearable pain.

I understand and I know what you are feeling, My Child. Your God was despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. But listen to the good news, Little One.

Surely the Lamb of God has borne your griefs, and carried your sorrows; He was wounded for your transgressions, He was bruised for your iniquities: the chastisement of your peace was upon Him; and with His stripes you are healed.

Do not sorrow any longer, Dear One. The Glorious Cross changed everything. The Comforter Himself now dwells forever in your heart. I comfort all who mourn, I give you beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for that spirit of heaviness.

Instead of your shame you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion you shall rejoice in your portion. Hope in Me, Beloved. My Head was bowed down, so that yours could be raised up.

I AM your Glory and the Lifter of your head. In your land you shall possess double; and everlasting joy shall be yours.

“He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed,” Isaiah 53:3-5.

“Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone,” Mark 12:10.

“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us? And they took offense at Him,” Mark 6:3.

“and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff,” Luke 4:29.

“He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him,” John 1:11.

See: Isaiah 61.

“When He had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, He bowed His head and gave up His spirit,” John 19:30.

“Many are saying of my soul, “There is no deliverance for him in God.” But You, O LORD, are a shield about me, My glory, and the One who lifts my head. I was crying to the LORD with my voice, And He answered me from His holy mountain,” Psalm 3:2-4.

~Deborah Waldron Fry

Deborah Waldron Fry