COMPARISONS ARE HUMAN—AND DEADLY!
What goes around in your mind when you see someone who is especially gifted and capable (plus, they’re spiritual and humble)?Or they have a position you’d like to have? Do you feel like slinking away? I often do!When you see other women with more personality or friends than you, do you think, I’m not as popular or attractive as them—but I wish I was? Sometimes!
Being human, we all struggle at times with the Comparison Syndrome:
We compare ourselves with others—their accomplishments, abilities, position in life
We compare our spouses
We compare our children
We compare our business or career or ministry with others
What’s the effect? It’s like playing with a scorpion. We poison our own souls.
Comparisons can produce PRIDE. It can puff us up, produce a big ego, lead to arrogance and believing we’re better than others.
Comparisons can fuel an unhealthy need to PROVE to ourselves and others that “I’m as good as you are.”
Comparisons can chain us to a POOR ME attitude where we battle feelings of failure, inferiority and shame.
What’s behind the Comparison Syndrome?
We’re looking for something only God can give us: A sense of significance, purpose, meaning, and worth. We crave an inner assurance that we matter. That we have value. That Someone cares.
What will satisfy our souls? Knowing and being rooted in what Scripture says:We were created by Him and for Him. Col.1:16.
We were and are continually saved not on the basis of what we do but because of His mercy that never ends. Titus 3:4-5
You and I matter to God. This is what feeds our human craving for significance, purpose, meaning and worth. Want to stomp on that scorpion? Saturate your soul in God’s love.
Blessings,
Poppy