STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS.
First of all, one definition of success is: Gaining wealth and fame.
But how much wealth do you need to be successful?
How much fame? Should you pick an arbitrary target? Should you compare yourself to others? Some harsh but straight to the point questions we should ask ourselves.
What if you have decided to devote yourself to raising children of character, or serving your church and your community? Does that mean you are less successful? No! The true meaning of success is doing the best you can, with what you have, wherever you are in life.
The bible warns us in: 2 Corinthians 10: 12. “For we dare not make ourselves of number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves among themselves, are not wise.”
When you play the comparison game in your life, you are like the two cows that saw the milk lorry go by with a sign, PASTEURISED, HOMOGENISED, VITAMIN A added. One cow said to other, Makes you feel inadequate, doesn’t it?
Look if you want to be successful with what you have, God will help you to be all that you can be, but he won’t help you to be someone else.
When you focus your attention on who you aren’t, by comparing yourself with someone else, you lose sight of who you need to become.
Ever heard of eighteen/forty/sixty rule? When you’re eighteen, you worry about what everybody’s thinking about you. When you’re forty, you realise that it doesn’t really matter what they think about you. When you’re sixty, it dawns on you that most of them weren’t thinking about you at all!
Paul’s life changed dramatically with one question: ‘LORD, what do you want me to do?’ In Acts 9: 6. Says: “and he trembled and astonished said, Lord what wilt thou have me to do? And Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”
It’s only when you ask that question yourself, will you discover who you are and what God’s called you to be.
