Kill the Comparisons
"Perfection is my enemy"...that's a line I heard in an old song on the radio the other day...
We live in a world of comparisons. That's no doubt. I'd say in the past year I've fallen more victim to these comparisons than I have in the past five. I remember always comparing myself to others when I first started college but after that I was pretty good about being satisfied with myself and content in what I had.
Lately I've been doing a lot of reading that encourages people (especially millennials) not to get caught up in social media, because doing so causes you to constantly ask yourself "Is my life as exciting as this person's? Am I as pretty as she is? Why does he have this and I don't? How did she get that job? How is her house always so clean??!?!?" ...etc. This mindset is the opposite of what the Lord intended. He created each person on this earth in a different way to serve a different purpose and to be content in their uniqueness. Sadly, it's hard in today's world with so much at our fingertips to compare ourselves to, to compare our significant others to, our jobs, cars, houses, etc.
The hope I have, though, is that this causes believers to trust even harder in Jesus, to be even more radical in our faith and encouraging others, to be even more determined to see ourselves as God sees us. To live more upright because we are so serious about finding our satisfaction and contentment in the Lord.
No one is perfect, and believing that someone else has it all together is entirely false. Don't place your self worth in a lie that the enemy wants you to believe!
We live in a world of comparisons. That's no doubt. I'd say in the past year I've fallen more victim to these comparisons than I have in the past five. I remember always comparing myself to others when I first started college but after that I was pretty good about being satisfied with myself and content in what I had.
Lately I've been doing a lot of reading that encourages people (especially millennials) not to get caught up in social media, because doing so causes you to constantly ask yourself "Is my life as exciting as this person's? Am I as pretty as she is? Why does he have this and I don't? How did she get that job? How is her house always so clean??!?!?" ...etc. This mindset is the opposite of what the Lord intended. He created each person on this earth in a different way to serve a different purpose and to be content in their uniqueness. Sadly, it's hard in today's world with so much at our fingertips to compare ourselves to, to compare our significant others to, our jobs, cars, houses, etc.
The hope I have, though, is that this causes believers to trust even harder in Jesus, to be even more radical in our faith and encouraging others, to be even more determined to see ourselves as God sees us. To live more upright because we are so serious about finding our satisfaction and contentment in the Lord.
No one is perfect, and believing that someone else has it all together is entirely false. Don't place your self worth in a lie that the enemy wants you to believe!
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