Do you struggle with the feeling that you aren't good enough? We've all had the thought at least once. We look at others and see how much better they are at any particular thing and how we don't measure up. We beat ourselves up because we can't cook like her or sing like him. The root of insecurity is comparing yourself to other people.
When we are comparing ourselves to others we are comparing between flawed individuals. We see in others the things that we aren't good at ourselves and feel terrible when we don't measure up. The truth of the matter is that we all have our strengths and weaknesses and they are different for everyone (thank God). We are designed so that we work well as a body of Christ, filling in where another lacks. When we spend so much time focusing on our weaknesses versus another's strengths, we miss the whole point of what Jesus created us for.
Rest assured that the Lord has given you your own strengths and gifts. Instead of comparing yourself to others, seek Him on what those gifts and how to use them. In the end, it doesn't matter what your gifts are as long as you use them as tools to bring Jesus glory.
Matthew 25:14-30
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying,
‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’" (NIV)
When we are comparing ourselves to others we are comparing between flawed individuals. We see in others the things that we aren't good at ourselves and feel terrible when we don't measure up. The truth of the matter is that we all have our strengths and weaknesses and they are different for everyone (thank God). We are designed so that we work well as a body of Christ, filling in where another lacks. When we spend so much time focusing on our weaknesses versus another's strengths, we miss the whole point of what Jesus created us for.
Rest assured that the Lord has given you your own strengths and gifts. Instead of comparing yourself to others, seek Him on what those gifts and how to use them. In the end, it doesn't matter what your gifts are as long as you use them as tools to bring Jesus glory.
Matthew 25:14-30
“For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying,
‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’" (NIV)
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