Comparison Kills

In counseling situations, my wife and often talk about "playing the comparison game" and how it will kill your soul and if married, your marriage.  Today, Ryan Huguley writes well on this topic.  He opens with this:

We’ve all done it.

We’ve all compared ourselves to someone else at some point in our lives – other Christians, other pastors, other parents, other husbands, other wives, other students, other men, other women…the list goes on and on. We compare ourselves to everyone around morally, spiritually, intellectually, and physically.

Though it’s common place in our lives, our constant comparison is killing us. NOTHING good comes from comparing ourselves to anyone else. Think about it…comparison kills you because it inevitably leads to one of two places…

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