THE WOE OF COMPARISON

 

I grew up with the mindset of trying to prove to people how strong, brilliant, intelligent and diligent I was. I always wanted compliments, I always wanted attention, I loved the sound of "Well done", "you're doing well" and the likes. I just wanted approval and appreciation.....but little did I know that I was actually killing myself.

I began to compete with the people and I felt were better than I was, I began to do things to make myself measure up to some standards. Gradually, I began to frown at other people's successes because I always felt the success recorded should have been recorded by me. I saw myself as a man running behind schedule. I wanted to meet up with men's expectations and the achievements of my peers. The more I tried to meet up, the farther behind I was. The more I compared myself with others, the more embittered I was at myself for "lagging behind". 

On a fateful day, the light of God's Word dawned on me and I beheld how much I have gone away from God's plan for my life, I was definitely running the wrong race because men was my standard. 

Beloved, the journey of destiny is a personal one, not defined by the successes others have recorded around you but ultimately defined by God's plan for yourself. Until you stop competing, you might not experience perfect peace. Until you stop dancing to the beat of peer pressure, you'll continue to live in discontentment. Until you calm yourself down and seek God's face for your life, you'll continue to run another man's race.

Perfect peace comes when we receive God's intentions for our lives and run with them. Ultimate satisfaction comes when we run our race according to divine order. True achievement is not when you do what others are doing but when you successful do what you've been divinely wired to do...

Beloved, STOP CHASING SHADOWS...

DISCERN GOD'S WILL FOR YOUR LIFE AND DO IT!

Samson Obaloluwa OJO

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