Stop Comparing Yourself To Others
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1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual, restore such a person with a gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves so that you also won’t be tempted. 2 Carry one another’s burdens; in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 Let each person examine his own work, and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else. 5 For each person will have to carry his own load.
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all his good things with the teacher. 7 Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, 8 because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. 9 Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.
One of the fastest ways of discouraging yourself and getting trapped by the sin of envy is when you compare yourself to others. God has a specific plan for you and you won’t accomplish that plan by looking at others.
Count your blessings and not the blessings of someone else. Let God control your life and give Satan no opportunity to discourage you from the purpose God has for you. Know that all you need is Christ. Set your mind at peace by focusing on the Lord.
QUOTES
Theodore Roosevelt – “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
“Don’t compare yourself to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.”
“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
4 Let each person examine his own work, and then he can take pride in himself alone, and not compare himself with someone else. 5 For each person will have to carry his own load.
LEADS TO ENVY
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30 A tranquil heart is life to the body,
but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.
16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.
WE DON’T LIVE FOR PEOPLE
22 Put no more trust in a mere human,
who has only the breath in his nostrils.
What is he really worth?
WE LIVE FOR GOD!
30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways know him,
and he will make your paths straight.
GOD WILL PROVIDE
1 The Lord is my shepherd;
I have what I need.
ONLY 1 COMPARISON
17 So let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.
1 Imitate me, as I also imitate Christ.