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I Wanted to Be Liked, But God Wanted Me Loved.

For the longest time, I just wanted people to like me.


I wanted to be the girl everyone smiled at when I walked in the room, the one with the prettiest selfies, the best outfits, the funniest captions. I changed how I talked, how I dressed, and sometimes even how I thought—just to fit into spaces I had no business squeezing into. And if I’m being real, it felt good for a moment. Until it didn’t.


The truth? Being liked is temporary. It fades when you mess up, when you say the wrong thing, or when you stop performing. But being loved—truly loved by God—is different. It doesn’t demand perfection. It wraps you up even when you’re at your lowest. And it took me a while to see that.


God wasn’t trying to make me popular. He was trying to make me whole.


When I finally stopped chasing applause and started chasing Him, I found a love I didn’t have to compete for. A love that corrected me, healed me, and stood beside me when I couldn’t even recognize myself in the mirror. That love is Jesus.


So to the girl reading this who’s tired of shrinking, pretending, or pleasing—know this:

God doesn’t just like the version of you you post online. He loves the real, raw, unfiltered you. 💗

Galatians 1:10 in the King James Version (KJV):

“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.” 

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