{"id":53,"date":"2012-06-19T21:06:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shorttim.es\/?p=53"},"modified":"2012-06-19T21:06:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:06:02","slug":"no-more-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"No More Comparisons!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comparison<\/strong>\u00a0– that is what I want to talk about today. \u00a0Do you find that you compare yourself to others? \u00a0I do this more than I would care to admit. \u00a0I really can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t do this. \u00a0I remember in college, participating in several pageants and comparing myself to the other girls; when I started my career I found myself comparing myself to other women who I considered successful. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Why did I and do I find myself comparing\u00a0me<\/em>\u00a0to others? \u00a0Maybe part of it is my competitive nature, but regardless of why, comparison to others does nothing but create insecurity and keeps me from pursuing the plan God has for me. \u00a0God did not create me to be exactly like anyone else. \u00a0God did not create me for a plan exactly like someone else\u2019s. \u00a0God did not create me to be a duplicate of anyone else. \u00a0God created me in His image for a specific purpose. \u00a0Ephesians 2:10 says.\u00a0\u00a0For we are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before hand so that we could walk in them<\/em>. \u00a0God prepared my purpose beforehand. \u00a0My purpose is different than anyone else’s and He has equipped me with talents and gifts that differ from anyone else. \u00a0And the same is true for you, God created you for a unique purpose. \u00a0He did not create you to mimic someone else’s life. \u00a0He has gifted you and will equip you with everything you need to be successful towards accomplishing YOUR purpose. \u00a0Jeremiah 29:11 says\u00a0For I know the plans I have for you, “declares the Lord,” plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Comparison can also create envy of others. \u00a0Why do they seem to have it all, why does their life seem so perfect? \u00a0Why isn’t our house as nice as theirs, why do they get all this free time to spend with their family and have fun yet I have to work all of the time, why can\u2019t our business be as successful as theirs; why, why, why? \u00a0Envy is defined as “a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else’s possessions, qualities or luck, desire to have a quality, possession, or other attribute belonging to someone else.” \u00a0<\/em>Scripture says we are to keep our eyes on Him, not others. \u00a0Isaiah 26:3-4 says\u00a0\u00a0You keep him in\u00a0perfect peace\u00a0whose mind is stayed on you<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0because he trusts in you. \u00a0Trust in the Lord forever,\u00a0for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.<\/em><\/p>\n

So bottom line, I want my focus to be on Christ, not comparing myself to others, whether it be with possessions, business, ministry or anything else.\u00a0 I don\u2019t have the same gifts and talents as the next person and that is okay because God created me for His specific purpose and is equipping me to complete it.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comparison\u00a0– that is what I want to talk about today. \u00a0Do you find that you compare yourself to others? \u00a0I do this more than I would care to admit. \u00a0I really can’t remember a time in my life when I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorttimer.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}