That is what rejection does to us. It changes us. It makes us guarded and tentative, even suspicious, and we go into hiding.
Even assumed rejection does this, which to me is exactly our problem today. Man believes God rejected them, but Jesus! Jesus is God’s (father son and spirits) love letter to mankind. There is no rejection of us from him. Luke 15 demonstrates this perfectly. The father seeing the son a long way off RAN to him and took him up in a giant bear hug (look at the original language in the Greek). Would not hear the son talk about how unworthy he was. Just total love!
