It's called co-dependency when we feel a need to fit into a culture. Those who cannot feel validated and whole unless someone else is fawning over them are showing their weakness.
When we rely on Christ, we do not need the approval of people. We love people, but we don't need them to validate us.
Acts 4:12: "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved".
No one else in the world can know us as Christ knows us, knowing our need and our personality. He knows it all and human beings know almost nothing about us, all they have to go on is what they think they see outwardly.
1 Corinthians 2:11 "For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no man knows the things of God except the Spirit of God".
Believers can discern the spirit of a person because we have the Spirit of Christ, but only God can know our most intimate needs that even we are not aware of within ourselves.
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