Before I begin to share why rejection is God’s preservative, let me define what a preservative is and why they are used. A preservative is something that preserves or has the power of preserving; specifically: an additive used to protect against decay, discoloration, or spoilage.

God was protecting me from being destroyed although it didn’t feel like it in the situation. God wants you to also know that rejection was his protection. It was a perservative. He was preserving you for the right one even though you couldn’t see it then.

I remember I had to come face to face with myself. I didn’t love me. I wanted my ex-husband to love me broken but I didn’t love me broken. Sometimes we are looking for love from others but not the one that is love and that is God. I remember the day I opened my heart fully to the Lord to love me. I asked Him to reveal to me the love Him and I shared in eternity. It was the most intimate outpouring for years of encounter after encounter of Him loving on me.

Rejection placed me in a new direction and became a preservative. The word says in the songs of Solomon that God’s banner over us is love. God’s banner over me is love and it is over you as well. I didn’t take my own life when the enemy came to steal, kill, and destroy me because I had a revelation of God’s love. If you are struggling with suicide and rejection like I once did, God wants you to know he loves you and rejection didn’t come to destroy you, it came to preserve you and redirect you to his love. The enemy tries to get us so entangled with things that are not of God so we end up rejecting the will of God for our lives.

Another way the Lord showed me how he used rejection to preserve me was for saving me for my future husband and not allowing my sexual identity to be perverted. I wrote a letter on 12/20/24 to my future husband. I wrote I now understand every time I was rejected that God was preserving my love for you. As I look back in hindsight over my life, I see how God even before I accepted Christ didn’t allow rejection to push me into a path of complete destruction because of rejection. Rejection is God’s preservative when we learn to respond to God’s love and not allow the enemy to use it to bring destruction in our lives. I will forever be grateful for every time I was ever rejected and how God has redirected my life in Him.

Prayer:

I pray for all those that are struggling with rejection and even suicide that you will remember that God promised to deliver us from every affliction. I pray God will give you a revelation of his love like he did me. He is a very present help in the time of trouble. I pray you allow him to heal your soul. Be free from the spirit of rejection and suicide and open your heart for all God has for you. I pray God will open your spiritual and natural eyes and that you will lift your eyes to the hills where your help comes from and know that your best days are ahead of you. God has not forgotten you even if you caused your own sabotage like Samson. God remembered Samson as he cried out for revenge for his two eyes. May the Lord remember you and avenge you for every wound in Jesus’ name.