comparison distracts 

Comparison – The Purpose Distractor

Comparison creeps into the corners of our lives and then, slowly but surely, begins to consume us.            

Really comparison is a form of jealousy. It’s the desire to be like or be better than someone or have what someone has, whether it’s a career, body, clothes, relationship, friends, etc.

“Envy makes the bones rot.” Proverbs 14:30

And comparison is the thief of joy.

I think we all – to one extent or another – deal with comparison. The more I see it in my own life, I realize it eats me up. Comparison is dangerous and unrelenting.

It makes us feel less than and unfulfilled.

We all have different lives to live, and comparison has a way of making us feel like we should all have the same function, the same purpose, the same life.

It tells us that what they have should be ours and because they have it we can’t. It tells us that we are behind or ahead of our peers, implying that we can only be ahead or behind. In comparison, there is no implication that what they have can be there’s and we can having something for us too. In comparison, there is no focusing on what God alone has for me and the journey He has me on because it focuses us on keeping up with others.

Comparison sinks in this thought that we should all be the same, all uniform and without differentiation, all at the same place at the same time, with the same things.

But friends, you were uniquely created with a unique purpose.

Let me say it again: friends, you were uniquely created with a unique purpose.  Psalm 139 

When we know this truly, we can cheer others on in their accomplishments and successes, blessings and dreams, even if they are the same things we want.

Because our God is BIG and CREATIVE and He made YOU and He plans your life, so their blessings doesn’t take away from ours. Their accomplishments don’t mean we’re behind.

God has a different purpose and life for each of us. There is different timing for our blessings, different levels to our “success,” different journeys, different struggles, different losses.

God has something for us all. So, let’s throw away comparison because aside from being destructive, it has no validity when brought to the light of the truth that God has a plan for YOU.

More verses on comparison: Philippians 2:3; Exodus 20:17; James 3:16; Psalm 23:1; Jeremiah 29:11; Psalm 138:8

XO,

Meg