Lately God has really been putting it on my heart.
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
If I am comparing my life to someone else's... then I am certainly not focused on things above.
But here is the part that really has hit me lately- how we avoid the comparison... Aka focusing on earthly things.
We MUST be in the Word.
We MUST be in constant conversation with God.
We MUST serve the world around us.
We MUST serve the world around us.
We MUST participate in real community with real people (read- not social media).
When we live our life in prayer, in the Word, in service, and in community (focusing on things above :)) we can't live in constant comparison.
So my challenge for myself is to do this (only through Christ of course), to spend more time being real and to be focused so totally on above that there is no room for comparison!
When we live our life in prayer, in the Word, in service, and in community (focusing on things above :)) we can't live in constant comparison.
So my challenge for myself is to do this (only through Christ of course), to spend more time being real and to be focused so totally on above that there is no room for comparison!
Love this. Just shared it with my small group
ReplyDeleteWell said. It's so easy to look at someone's blog or social media feed and only see the "highlights." I always have to tell myself that no one's perfect and everyone's messy somewhere, we just don't see it.
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