Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. John4:13

My people have committed two sins:
They have forsaken me,
the spring of living water,
and have dug their own cisterns,
broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
Jeremiah 2:13

God's love is unconditional. This is where I need to dwell. I have been dwelling in man's conditional approval. My purpose for existence is to be loved by God. This love just is, without me doing anything. I would drink of the living water that Jesus has for me. I would be rid of the cisterns that I have dug for myself. I would choose God's love. I surrender the lies that tell me I don't measure up.

"Lord, let my belief system line up with yours. If you say I am lovable and approvable, then let me believe it."

God's love is based on who he is, not how I perform, not on others' opinion of me. He is love and he is loving. This is the key.