Accept, or Reject

Scripture: John 19:7 (NASB)

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out {to} {be} the Son of God."

Jesus did not make himself out to be anything other than who He was; the Son of God.  However, the people rejected Him, because He was not what they expected. He did not look the way they wanted Him to look. He did not have what they expected Him to have. He was not forceful, but humble. He came in the spirit of meekness, which they viewed as weakness. They refused to accept Jesus for who He was; but that did not change His identity, nor His pupose.

Just because someone does no accept us for who we are, does not mean that we are not, who God says we are. Our identity, nor our pupose is not changed based on the negative words that someone speaks in our lives, or how they treat us. However, there will be those that reject us, and our purpose; based on what they expect. If we do not meet their idealistic standards; they'll convince themselves that we are not who God says we are. If we don't have the car, or if we don't have the house; or if we don't have money in the bank; acceptance turns quickly into rejection, because of the inability to completely trust God for what He knows, as best.

Unfortunately, there are individuals with expectations that are limited to their own personal experiences, and what they can fathom within their own mind. They want to live in the false reality they have created for themselves, and completely erase the memory of your assignment in their life. The temperature gage of what appears to be impossible, created in the mind of God, does not even get hot; because of the lack of unbelief in Him to blow ones' mind, through the acceptance, and the reveleation of what He has already set up.

Reflection:
When the expectation of man, comes face-to-face with the purpose of God; we must make a decision to accept, or reject what God has before us. If we reject the purpose of someone that has been assigned to our life, we reject God's very best for us; and we end up with a substitute fix, with a temporary high, throwing us further and further off-track: leaving us empty for the next fix, that we will settle for. The repetitive cycle of abuse of someone's purpose, and of oursleves; can only lead us further, and further away from the perfect will of God. We must ask ourselves, do we really want God's best?

Prayer:
Dear Lord, help me to see as you see, and to receive all that you have for me. I place my will, my trust, and every one of my desires into the palm of your hand; knowing that you know me, from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet. I thank you for the ability that you have placed within me, now, to receive what you have revealed to me, as what is best. I give you glory, and I give you honor; for you alone are worthy of revealing the purpose of a thing, and the fullness thereof. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.

Strong's Concordance Definitions:
The Jews: 2453
1) Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation

2) Jewish as respects to birth, origin, religion

him, "We have: 2192
1) to have, i.e. to hold

a) to have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions, etc.), to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or consider or hold as
2) to have i.e. own, possess
a) external things such as pertain to property or riches or furniture or utensils or goods or food etc.
b) used of those joined to any one by the bonds of natural blood or marriage or friendship or duty or law etc, of attendance or companionship
3) to hold one's self or find one's self so and so, to be in such or such a condition
4) to hold one's self to a thing, to lay hold of a thing, to adhere or cling to
a) to be closely joined to a person or a thing

A law: 3551
1) anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command

a) of any law whatsoever

1) a law or rule producing a state approved of God
a) by the observance of which is approved of God
2) a precept or injunction
3) the rule of action prescribed by reason
b) of the Mosaic law, and referring, acc. to the context. either to the volume of the law or to its contents
c) the Christian religion: the law demanding faith, the moral instruction given by Christ, esp. the precept concerning love
d) the name of the more important part (the Pentateuch), is put for the entire collection of the sacred books of the OT

He ought: 3784
1) to owe

a) to owe money, be in debt for

1) that which is due, the debt
2) metaph. the goodwill due

To die: 599
1) to die

a) of the natural death of man
b) of the violent death of man or animals
c) to perish by means of something
d) of trees which dry up, of seeds which rot when planted
e) of eternal death, to be subject to eternal misery in hell

He made: 4160
1) to make
a) with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc.
b) to be the authors of, the cause
c) to make ready, to prepare
d) to produce, bear, shoot forth
e) to acquire, to provide a thing for one's self
f) to make a thing out of something
g) to (make i.e.) render one anything

1) to (make i.e.) constitute or appoint one anything, to appoint or ordain one that
2) to (make i.e.) declare one anything
h) to put one forth, to lead him out
i) to make one do something

1) cause one to
j) to be the authors of a thing (to cause, bring about)
2) to do
a) to act rightly, do well

1) to carry out, to execute
b) to do a thing unto one

1) to do to one
c) with designation of time: to pass, spend
d) to celebrate, keep

1) to make ready, and so at the same time to institute, the celebration of the passover
1) a son
a) rarely used for the young of animals
b) generally used of the offspring of men
c) in a restricted sense, the male offspring (one born by a father and of a mother)
d) in a wider sense, a descendant, one of the posterity of any one,
1) the children of Israel
2) sons of Abraham
e)) used to describe one who depends on another or is his follower
1) a pupil
2) son of man
a) term describing man, carrying the connotation of weakness and mortality
b) son of man, symbolically denotes the fifth kingdom in Daniel 7:13 and by this term its humanity is indicated in contrast with the barbarity and ferocity of the four preceding kingdoms (the Babylonian, the Median and the Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman) typified by the four beasts. In the book of Enoch (2nd Century) it is used of Christ.
c) used by Christ himself, doubtless in order that he might intimate his Messiahship and also that he might designate himself as the head of the human family, the man, the one who both furnished the pattern of the perfect man and acted on behalf of all mankind. Christ seems to have preferred this to the other Messianic titles, because by its lowliness it was least suited to foster the expectation of an earthly Messiah in royal splendour.

3) son of God
a) used to describe Adam (Lk. 3:38)
b) used to describe those who are born again (Lk. 20:36) and of angels and of Jesus Christ
c) of those whom God esteems as sons, whom he loves, protects and benefits above others

1) in the OT used of the Jews
2) in the NT of Christians
3) those whose character God, as a loving father, shapes by chastisements (Heb. 12:5-8)
d) those who revere God as their father, the pious worshippers of God, those who in character and life resemble God, those who are governed by the Spirit of God, repose the same calm and joyful trust in God which children do in their parents (Rom. 8:14, Gal. 3:26 ), and hereafter in the blessedness and glory of the life eternal will openly wear this dignity of the sons of God. Term used preeminently of Jesus Christ, as enjoying the supreme love of God, united to him in affectionate intimacy, privy to his saving councils, obedient to the Father's will in all his acts

God: 2316
1) a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities
2) the Godhead, trinity
a) God the Father, the first person in the trinity
b) Christ, the second person of the trinity
c) Holy Spirit, the third person in the trinity
3) spoken of the only and true God
a) refers to the things of God
b) his counsels, interests, things due to him
4) whatever can in any respect be likened unto God, or resemble him in any way
a) God's representative or viceregent

1) of magistrates and judges
e) to perform: to a promise

References:
"Gospel of John 19 - (NASB - New American Standard Bible)." Blue Letter Bible. 1996-2009. 24 Dec 2009. http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Jhn&c=19&t=NASB

Higgins, S. (2009). Accept, or Reject. Devotions for Thought. http://www.devotionsforthought.blogspot.com/, http://www.higginspublishing.com/