No one wants to be rejected. It is a horrible feeling, no matter how gently one is let down. Whether rejected for a job or in love, it can crush even the best of us. How much more crushing, then, would it be to be rejected by God? To be sworn off forever, with no hope of salvation? Given what Paul has said in Romans 9-10, is this the very fate of the people that God has called his own, even Israel? No, Paul argues, God has not forsaken completely his people. Today, as we begin Romans 11, we begin to see why.
