Comparison…..it’s amazing how we always compare ourselves with others, always try to “keep up with the Jones’s” and often beat ourselves up for not quite matching up!
Whether its the brand of baby pram, type of shoes, make of car, where your child goes to school….everything is influenced by “what will they think of me” or “if they do that then I will definitely follow or not follow them” comparison is a curse.
Before I had my heart surgery I liked to know that people liked me and I loved to please others most of the time. I also thought that by being at a particular church and knowing particular people there, then I had made it. Well all those mind-sets were shattered when a week after my surgery 2 ladies, who I did not know very well and who had absolutely NO reason to come and see me, other than to lavish love on me, came to visit and pray with me. I was so totally overwhelmed by their presence and cried most of the time that they were there. After they left, God spoke so clearly to me about HIS CHURCH. Olav and I were not part of any church at the time of my surgery, and so this visit revealed to me that I am a daughter of the most high God….He is not restricted to a building or denomination. We, as His children, are part of his amazing and HUGE family-and we always will be! That day was a life-changing moment for me, and it has also broken a huge aspect of comparison in my life.
hope of heart 