The Folly of Comparison

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Do you ever feel that you are a failure and that everyone else has it all together except you? Happens to me all the time!

Or have you ever visited someone’s website or blog and widen your eyes in amazement at the amount of stuff they have done or are doing with their child? And you, in comparison, have done zilch compared to them? Happens to me all the time – again.

Well, the good news is – you are not alone!

And the better news is – no one really has gotten their act together! Really.

We all have our strengths and weaknesses. Someone may be totally great in the kitchen, whipping up healthy and delicious meals for her family everyday while another may be great at explaining mathematical concepts to her child/ren.

It is easy to look at someone’s strength, compare it to your own and then feel totally inadequate. It is unwise to do that. I am not saying that we should not strive to better ourselves. But we should stop beating ourselves up over our weak points and instead, focus on the strengths and gifts God has blessed us with and be thankful for them.

God truly made us all different. I see this in my 6 children all the time.

When we look at others and start comparing ourselves to them, we tend to want what they have. The question we then need to ask ourselves is : 

WHY do we want these things.

Is it out of the fear of losing out? Is it to prove something to someone or to yourself? Is it to get affirmation from the people around us?

And what is the price that you are paying to achieve all these things?

Stress and sleepless nights? Fear and worry?

The motivation to do our best should be because it pleases God, not because we want to be as good or better than the next person.

Colossians 3:23 says, “And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men”.

And one more thing – be happy for that person who is able to accomplish so much.

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