What Social Media Can Never Give You

Because only God has what your starving soul is looking for

We all make the same mistake on social media: we think “likes” will help our confidence.

As if somehow those digital metrics can float from our screen, pierce through us, and pump us up.

Here’s the truth: those social media stats we spend so much time longing for actually don’t have the real power to nurture our self-image.

Sometimes the opposite happens: our craving to constantly seek approval based on our social media standing only chips away at our self-esteem.

We believe (falsely) that if we have enough (or more!) likes, we’ll like ourselves better.

Worse, we worry that if we don’t have likes as much as social media “influencers”, we must not be likable.

Why do we only feel good, impressive, and likable when our social media numbers say so?

Because well, more hearts mean we’re more loved, right?

The problem is that social media notifications can’t give us what we truly want: to like our own self, to be loved and feel seen, no matter what.

If you’ve ever felt trapped in the social media hamster wheel, hoping that your post likes will boost your self-confidence, only to find yourself feeling worse after all the eager posting, you’re not alone.

We’ve all been there. We place the health of our self-confidence in the hands of those who don’t even have the right or power to make us feel genuinely confident about ourselves.

Because the truth is, social media metrics are fleeting, inflated, and unreliable.

The secret to having real confidence isn’t in our phone’s notification alerts at all!

Confidence starts with the internal freedom to detach ourselves from our obsession with other people’s approval.

Instead, we need to seek a reconnection with God to remember our love-worthiness.

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