So many in our world are suffering from rejection and hate. They are rejected by parents too full of self loathing to exercise real affection; thus the fattening build up of bitterness goes without taming or hope. Others are rejected by segments of society that don't want to stretch the limits of patience or racial understanding. Many are rejected by ideas, religious thoughts, and political persuasions. The beautiful thing about Jesus was that he was a redeemer for the rejected.

He reached for the unwanted and was never detoured by the unwilling. He was willing to spend an afternoon in the hot desert sun at a lonely well talking to a shacked up divorcee whom he would turn into a flowing river of testimony for an entire city. He was willing to listen to the deepest heartaches. He knew that the religious elite had turned many away. But he didn't turn them away; he turned to them; he helped them turn a new corner.

He was willing to reach a hand to the feared lepers. Lepers that had been separated from the rest of normal society. Lepers that weren't the best followers or participants in a   crowd; for they usually dispersed the terrified crowds and dissipated the swells of hopeful hearers; these were sore covered, putrid smelling people who showed little of their faces, but Jesus didn't mind showing them his whole face. He refused to shun them. For he was, after all, the son who wouldn't shun. He came to seek and save the worst case scenarios, while the Pharisees merely contented themselves with isolating and securing the best case scenarios under temple lock and key. Jesus stood in the open and became the open door for the desperate, while the religious world of His day kept their doors closed for fear of contamination. (Which in itself was a farce because those behind closed doors were full of contempt and dead men's bones).

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