Our basic need for human acceptance (if not love) is primal, or perhaps another way to say it, God-given.
The irony is that full human acceptance is not possible…acceptance of all that we truly are can only be manifested fully in God.
And, because this is true, our ability to be accepted can only be completed within our own selves, because only God fully knows and inhabits us (image-bearing). Another person is not capable of that kind of in-habitation, that kind of full acceptance.
And so, though we crave it at a basic-need level, we can’t wait for or expect another person to provide the full acceptance we desire.
