Comparison Kills

He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:45 You worked hard in the company for years, but someone else got the promotion. You invested your money in funds that you broker recommended, but they plunged to the bottom of the Morningstar ratings. You did your best to be a good parent, but your kids turned out to be no better than the children whose parents didn’t seem to care about them. Many times unbelievers do just as well in life as believers. What’s that about? If we take out our measuring stick too often, we can become angry because we think we deserve more than we’re getting from God. Jesus spent a lot of his time explaining the grace of God to people. Grace is a foreign concept to most of us. We operate in this world by standards, rewards, and punishments, so grace just doesn’t fit. But in this passage, Jesus explains that the embracing arms of God’s goodness reach out to everybody: the good and the evil, the righteous and the unrighteous, you and your neighbor, you and your spouse, you and the person who got the promotion instead of you. When we see God’s grace operate in the lives of people who we feel don’t deserve it, we have a choice: either we can complain and feel sorry for ourselves, or we can be thankful that the God of such goodness is the one we love and serve. Comparison kills because it always leaves us wanting more, but thankfulness brings life. In your life, are there some people who are getting more than they deserve? How does comparing your life to theirs hurt you? Do you need to adopt a spirit of thankfulness for what you have, regardless of others and what they have? I’d love to talk to you personally. For more on help I can provide and how you can reach me, check out… http://truthatlife.com/ or email me directly at curtis.songer@gmail.com