Left Out? Excluded?

A Not So Nice Word

Exclusion is a word that none of really enjoy experiencing. Sometimes we are left out, not included and it is not intentional, but other times, we are purposefully excluded. Either way, it still makes for a difficult soul trap to avoid. Exclusion is really a nasty trap of the enemy and we can side step it by not making assumptions, speculations, and presumptions when our soul is bearing the feeling of being “left out”. Musing on these kinds of things, trying to wrap our mind around exclusion, and over thinking it, just leads us to a pity-party that we don’t really want to go to. Listen Up to the wisdom found in this 1 Minute Encouragement Video:

“Jesus holds nothing back, nor does he spare any expense to prove his love. Day and night, his care continues. He never forgets us—not for a moment. It’s hard to believe that we can grow accustomed to such outrageous displays of devotion, neglecting him even for a moment. Today, let’s live with the continual awareness of the One who gave up all for us. Let’s stand daily under the canopy of his grace. Simmons- Rodriguez “The Vision”

Jesus Knows Exclusion 

The worst kind of exclusion experienced is that of Jesus. He knows marginalization. He experiences it daily. With all that Jesus has done for us and still is doing for us, we sideline Him in our lives. We are not giving Him total access to our lives, we exclude Him as we compartmentalize our lives and He only has our Sunday, and even if then, it is not without the yielding to distraction. We have not experienced even a fraction of the exclusion that Jesus has. To a world that He gave all to, he remains invisible, not viable, not validated and not given the honor He is due. What does Jesus do? He keeps loving unconditionally, He stays present with us, He loves us like we have not excluded Him. This is real love. A love that despite our daily exclusion of Him, keeps actively reaching for that wholly-holy acceptance of Him, hoping one day to have our undivided heart.

“The Fog Of Exclusion Is A Dense Disenchantment In Our Soul And Yet God Invites Us To Sit Under The Canopy Of His Grace, His Amazing Love”. KimberlyMac

You are the one and only God. What miracles! What wonders! What greatness belongs to you! Teach me more about you, how you work and how you move, so that I can walk onward in your truth until everything within me brings honor to your name. With all my heart and passion I will thank you, my God! I will give glory to your name, always and forever! You love me so much, and you have placed your greatness upon me. You rescued me from the deepest place of darkness, and you have delivered me from a certain death. 🙏'Teach me your way, Lord , that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.' Psalms 86:10-13 TPT

Not Good Enough

The enemy always wants us to “feel” like we are not good enough so he can invite us to a pity party that we wander aimlessly in, pushed through the open door by our passionate soured emotions. That is how the enemy of our soul rolls. Once we get into the pity-party we meet all kinds of devilish party people: Discouragement, Disillusionment, Disappointment, Disenchantment, Displeasure, Discontentment oh yes… and then there is Depression and Despair. Don’t drink what those party people with the same first initial of “d” for devil, are drinking! Get out quickly! Run! Exclusion immediately attaches disillusionment to our soul and we need to shake it off. Say: No Thank You! Say YES to God instead of letting the enemy bring chaos into our minds with untruth. God sees us all, He shows no partiality, He is inclusive, cling to Him, dig your life roots deeply in Him. God loves us, we are good enough! God shows no partiality. God excludes no one, He is constantly reaching for us all, and we are good enough to Him in Christ Jesus.

If you go against the grain, you get splinters, regardless of which neighborhood you’re from, what your parents taught you, what schools you attended. But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up. Being a Jew won’t give you an automatic stamp of approval. God pays no attention to what others say (or what you think) about you. He makes up his own mind. God shows no partiality Romans 2:9-11 MSG

Life Lessons Learned ~ One

This life lesson on exclusion starts with Jesus. We are not alone. He will never exclude us. He won’t turn his nose up at us in that snotty exclusive way. God is inclusive! He will never reject us. He will never betray us. He is always with us, for us, and thinks very highly of us. God thinks more highly of me than I do myself. God loves us unconditionally. He treats us according to what is in our hearts, not what we look like, or our station in life. People exclude other people for so many biases. It could be your nationality, or they don’t think they are cool enough, or they don’t like your personality, or they don’t like that you are unique and different. There is absolutely no bias in our God. People may not be so exclusive if they knew your back story like God does. People may not be so exclusive if they knew that your uniqueness is God shaped, designed specifically for a time such as this.   God is definitely not an exclusive-excluder. God sees me as perfectly finished in His mind’s eye, as He sculpts away on my design by testing my character with things like being excluded. Yes, God is with us and inclusively for us.

Life Lessons Learned ~ Two

The second life lesson is focus on Him, not ourself.  If you are excluded, God has a solution, something better you can do, look to Him, ask Him, He’s got a great God Adventure waiting for you. Take your expectations to God. Sometimes we definitely put our hopes in the wrong places. People serving no power higher than self, will be very exclusive as they try to get the fame they think they need by defaming you. God will never condemn us, where people will ghost us, leave us out and exclude us little by little until we are no longer allowed in their lives based on assumptions, speculations and presuppositions, all lies of the enemy. This kind of ghosting, making us feel invisible is the enemy of our soul trying to steal the focus of our lives, by shifting it to ourselves. When we feel someone has ghosted us for reasons that are not real, but driven by the deceiver, we need to look to God to fix that, and keep our focus on God, move forward and be about His business. Listen up to this 1 Minute Encouragement Video, the wisdom is invaluable.

Life Lesson Learned ~ Three

The third thing is, preparation for exclusion. We live in a broken world, so exclusion will be a part of it, no doubt about it. Life with people who have a human condition well, all we can say is: life is such… Deal with exclusion before it happens, by putting your identity wholly-holy in Christ.  We have a God Who sees us, we are viable, visible and validated by Him. He is never not seeing us. When you know Who you are in Christ, and someone excludes you, leaves you out, acknowledge the way it makes you feel, give it to God and walk on, because you are simply-significantly amazing in Christ and if someone wants to exclude you, that is their loss, not yours. Dust your feet off, shake off the evil intention of your enemy and move on with God. But truly, deeply anchored in God, exclusion may rock your boat, but the anchor holds. Praise God! He is good! Dig Deeper: https://thebridegroomscafe.com/in-heaven/

I trust you, Lord, to be my hiding place. Don’t let me down. Don’t let my enemies bring me to shame. Come and rescue me, for you are the only God who always does what is right. Rescue me quickly when I cry out to you. At the sound of my prayer may your ear be turned to me. Be my strong shelter and hiding place on high. Pull me into victory and breakthrough. For you are my high fortress, where I’m kept safe. You are to me a stronghold of salvation. When you deliver me out of this peril, it will bring glory to your name. As you guide me forth I’ll be kept safe from the hidden snares of the enemy— the secret traps that lie before me— for you have become my rock of strength. For you are my high fortress, where I’m kept safe. You are to me a stronghold of salvation. When you deliver me out of this peril, it will bring glory to your name. As you guide me forth I’ll be kept safe from the hidden snares of the enemy— the secret traps that lie before me— for you have become my rock of strength. Into your hands I now entrust my spirit. O Lord, the God of faithfulness, you have rescued and redeemed me. I despise these deceptive illusions, all this pretense and nonsense, for I worship only you. Psalms 31:1-6

Thank you for stopping into The Bridegroom’s Café today at The Miraculous Musing Table. We hope your spiritual meal was soul nourishing. Please take a moment right now and share it with someone else on your social media outreach platform. The Bridegroom’s Voice is a valuable life treasure and we listen up to it daily, hoping for God to navigate us, encourage us and love us in our growing through here. God bless you, MUCH KimberlyMac