No Comparison
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When we compare and compete with others, we can feel that we are less than. Less intelligent. Less attractive. Less successful. Less lovable. Less valuable.
Comparing yourself to others in your appearance, your accomplishments, your home, or your family can cause a sense of never being satisfied and lead to anxiety, depression and self hate. Or it can cause pride, legalism and a judgmental attitude.
Learn to discern how comparison may be the death of joy in your life, and how to reverse the process for a life filled with satisfaction and contentment.
Feelings of inferiority can keep us from accomplishing things which are well within our capabilities.
In 2 Corinthians 10:12 the Apostle Paul says this: “For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
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I will share with you some of the lessons I have learned through both trials and blessings in my life.
Once you learn to stop comparing and competing, you will start living out your own unique purpose.
No Comparison Posts
(1) Parallel Tracks
Learn To View Life As A Set Of Parallel Railroad Tracks Instead Of As A Series Of Peaks And Valleys
(2) Freckles and Brillo
Comparisons Start Early In Life. Sometimes It Takes A Lifetime To Forget Things Which Have Been Seared Into Our Memories And Damage Our Self-Worth
(3) And Then Along Came Twiggy
(3) And Then Along Came Twiggy
Dangerous Illusions: The illusion of physical perfection in media images can be very damaging, especially to adolescents
(4) Beauty Is Fleeting
(3) And Then Along Came Twiggy
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30 Beauty is fleeting, indeed, and the fleeting process seems to be picking up speed!
(5) Be It Ever So Humble
When I was a kid, I loved to watch The Brady Bunch. I had little interest in the characters, but I watched it to see the house. Such a cool modern house. The kitchen had beautiful wood cabinets and orange Formica counter tops. We had neither cabinets nor counter tops in our old kitchen, but I saved up my allowance and bought a can of paint ...
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