PSALM 139: 15-16 (NIV) - “My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”

Many people suffer from the fear of rejection, and that can keep a person from experiencing the blessings God has for us.

I was rejected before I was born because my birth mother knew she was going to give me up for adoption. I experienced many other rejections throughout my life, and many were just perceived rejections and fear of my perceptions.

Psalm 139, and particularly vs. 15-16, changed my life forever. I was not an accident! God “knit me together in my mother’s womb” and ordained my days. The words spoken to me through Psalm 139 gave me the strength to overcome my fears and search for my birth family though I faced the possibility of rejection from both my birth family and adopted family.

God showed His presence so often during the search. Not only do I have the blessing of connection with my birth family in Germany, but I have a stronger desire to seek God’s will for my life journey. I don’t want the fear of rejection to prevent me from God’s blessings and ordained purpose for my life.

Submitted by: Ann Kief