Comparisons are difficult, if not impossible, to avoid. Parents compare their children to other children’s performances, especially in athletics and academic achievements. Siblings compare themselves with each other, especially in terms of parental approval. Comparing who you are and what you are was initiated by God’s first family.
Cain and Abel, sons of Adam and Eve, set the stage for the rest of humanity to follow throughout the ages. Cain became jealous because Able presented a more acceptable offering to God, so he lured his brother to an isolated place and murdered him there.
The sad truth about comparisons is that you diminish yourself by overlooking the gifts and talents God has given to you. You are unique in God’s perception, and that truth can bring you security and peace when you forbid comparisons to take place.
God told the Christians at Corinth to stop comparing themselves to each other because it stole their joy. So give thanks to God for what you have and are.
We don’t dare to…compare
ourselves with some of those who speak highly of themselves, but when they
measure themselves by their own yardstick and compare themselves with
themselves, they don’t show good sense.
~2 Corinthians 10:12 Beck
– New Testament in the Language of Today
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