No one likes rejection. Being picked last for a team back in your school days was a crushing event. Even if you weren’t picked last, but were picked after someone you thought was worse than you, it still hurt. Some rejections are easier to get over than others. Some we could never get over on our own.

A rejection we could never overcome is the fact we should be rejected by God. Our sins put us on the scrap heap of eternal life. But God’s love does not leave us there. Instead of rejecting us eternally God sent Jesus. He was rejected by men and executed. In this action God punished our sins in Christ, instead of in us.

Because of that we can say with confidence that we will live with God forever. We can confidently tell others what God has done to save us. Whenever we come together with fellow believers we can rejoice because we point each other to the truth of God’s love for us in Christ.

At our Easter Festival service you have the privilege of encouraging each other with these truths and you get to praise God at the same time as you sing this week’s Psalm of the Day, Psalm 118.

Psalm 118

I will not die but live,

    and will proclaim what the LORD has done.

The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone;

    the LORD has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes.

This is the day the LORD has made;

    Let us rejoice and be glad in it.