It’s an interesting thing that everyone wants to be loved. What is the main reason for the popularity of social media? It’s the “like” button. If you have a dog or a cat, you know how much they love to be cuddled. Likewise, the most beautiful gardens are those that are tended to. Everyone needs to feel that love. This refers to God himself, who also wants to be loved. God also wants our love and our worship. What is praise? Praise is an expression of human love for God.

This fact brings some truths and some important lessons to our life. The first is that you have this need. When it is not answered, something is wrong. When you don’t receive the love of your family, you don’t feel respected inside your own home, where are you going to feel loved? How many people, because they don’t feel loved at home, go to the street, look for a small group, look for someone who will accept them? This is how it is with teenagers who do not feel understood by their parents and seek friendships outside the house. And, usually, they are bad friendships, which bring problems. When the wife and husband do not receive love in their marriage, they throw tantrums, they want to get attention and they expose themselves in situations on social media. People are starving for a crumb of affection. Some betrayals happen because the person is hungry to receive affection within the relationship and falls for the crumbs they receive outside.

If you are having these reactions, you have to understand the root of the problem. You need to resolve this lack, this need, this hunger for affection, and love.

⁃ First: what you shouldn’t do is get desperate begging for love. Because love is not something that is given out of pity and love is not forced, it cannot be demanded. Love, by its very definition, is the choice of the one who loves. “I choose to love you.” “I choose to give you my love.” So, you can’t breathe down on someone’s neck, running after, demanding, humiliating yourself, asking, insisting. Because that, in addition to not working, still diminishes you as a person worthy of being loved. It’s hard to love a needy person. It’s hard for you to love someone who doesn’t love themselves.
⁃ Second thing: if you need love, in need of affection (and I don’t just mean in the romantic sense), you feel great loneliness, you are a very lonely person, a person who doesn’t feel important, valued, know that the perfect love (and it is not running away from you) is the love of God. He gave His only Son to save you. Therefore, you who suffer so much and want to resolve this, seek the source of this love, which is God. You will learn your true worth. And then, you will become a much more lovable person and people will have joy and pleasure, also from loving and giving you love. Check out this full message in the video above.