Greater Faith | Day 28 | November 28, 2023

 Comparison is completely destructive. It makes you feel less than you really are and leads to self-depreciation, self-rejection, depression, and fear. 

Spending your time looking at what you are not, what someone else is doing, or what you wish you could be doing only serves to shrink God in you. 

God did not make you to be someone else or to do someone else’s ministry. 
He made you to be you, and when you become the best that you can be, there is more of you to be filled with God.


Competition is healthy on a sporting field, but not within the body of Christ. 
We are all a part of the same body; comparison and competition only serve to destroy it. We are called to complete each other, not compete with one another. 


Let’s remember that we are on the same team, fighting for the same cause, serving the same master – Jesus Christ.


Scripture:

Philippians 2:1-18

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