Let God be your source of validation.
It is important to let God be your validation. Seeking man for validation or allowing man to become your sole and primary source of validation can kill you. Yes, either way you may be thinking about it spiritually or naturally. To Validate something means to make valid, substantiate to confirm. How can a person or an object be completely considered validated or confirmed by someone or something that did not make it. It would be pointless and make their validation vain because man did not make you. God, Jehovah Jireh, Yahweh has made you so therefore He can be your only true source of validation. People can change all the time, one minute they love you and the next they hate you. If you place your validation and who you are and how you feel about yourself in people, you will become unstable. Instability breeds instability. But God is the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13: 8). God is not like man. He validates you through Him, who is constant and loving. I would r