Jacqueline Elliott says putting God first is essential to becoming your best self. Without God as the source of love, she argues, you can't fully learn or produce love. She contrasts her past of not centering God with her present life.
Believing in Christ and having God centered in your life. Actually, people, they say it's important, but really, like, we've actually firsthand lived it, because there was a time where we didn't put God first. And I think that if God is not centered and he's not first, then you can't be the best version of yourself. Because really, God is love. So if you want to love, you're going to have to take some love from somewhere. You're just not going to produce love. And who gives you love? God gives you love. If you don't love him and you don't feel that love and closeness that you have from him, you're not going to learn how to love to the max. Like, you're going to be missing it.