Seeking Validation

What we do in this life often amounts to nothing more than seeking to validate our own self-perceptions. Who I am is not the sum value of what I say and do, who I know, where I hang out, what my job is, what my hobbies are. But that is our perception, so we sometimes find ourselves lost when the things we "knew" about ourselves are no longer "true."

What we believe, where we worship, are very much the same thing; things we seek after to validate our own perceptions that we're good or worthy, that we're loved. In some cases, it is to feel that we're loved, or that we deserve to be loved. The only thing, again, is that Jesus didn't come to validate us.