In this soul-searching episode of Journey with Jesus, we confront one of the deepest cries of the human heart: the longing for validation, acceptance, and worth. The world offers a thousand counterfeit versions—likes, applause, promotions, relationships, achievements, beauty, strength, success—but they all leave us empty because they’re temporary, conditional, and ultimately controlled by other broken people. God’s validation is the only one that never runs out, never changes, and never depends on your performance. It is rooted in who He says you are, not in what you do, what you look like, or what others think.
You don’t need to earn God’s validation—Jesus already secured it for you on the cross.
The moment you placed your faith in Him, the Father looked at you and said the same thing He said over Jesus at His baptism:
“You are my beloved child; with you I am well pleased” (Matt 3:17).
That declaration was made over you before you ever did anything right or wrong. It is sealed by the blood of Christ, confirmed by the resurrection, and guarded by the Holy Spirit who lives inside you.
God’s validation is not fragile.
It doesn’t fluctuate with your failures, your feelings, or the opinions of others.
It is eternal, unchanging, and louder than every accusation the enemy or your own mind can throw at you.
Romans 8:38-39 is not poetry—it’s a legal fact in the court of heaven: nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.
When you live from God’s validation instead of chasing the world’s:
The most freeing sentence you’ll ever believe is this:
“I am already fully loved, fully accepted, and fully pleasing to God because of Jesus—not because of me.”
Once that truth sinks from your head to your heart, the validation chase ends. You stop begging for scraps from people and start feasting at the Father’s table.
You are seen.
You are known.
You are chosen.
You are loved—beyond measure, beyond condition, beyond time.
God’s validation is not something you hope to get one day.
It’s something you already have in Christ.
Live like it.
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“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” — 1 John 3:1 (NIV)
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