{"id":19925,"date":"2024-04-18T05:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=19925"},"modified":"2024-04-18T05:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:18:43","slug":"lets-stop-comparing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=19925","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Stop Comparing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I saw a sign that said, \u201cDon\u2019t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else\u2019s Chapter 20.” I needed those words. I wanted to be the virtuoso singer who spent countless years training her voice and I was comparing the voice I had in my church\u2019s choir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wanted to be the exemplary homemaker whose home is perfection everywhere, while I was doing good to get the kitchen\u2019s countertop cleared off and cleaned off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>There are many ways we compare ourselves. Our physical appearance. Our talents. Our kids. Our jobs. Our financial status. Our singleness or our marriage. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am grateful for those who follow my blogs. Some will say: \u201cI wish I could be a writer\/blogger like you!\u201d My reply is, \u201cJust be the best version of you that you can be. Let God use what you have already.” Then I recall she is an incredible cook and I praise her. Or to the creative photographer, I\u2019ll remind him: “I love the photos you take of your trips! You are a great photographer!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I wanted to be other people\u2019s \u201cChapter 20\u201d, but I had an epiphany. If God had intended for me to be anyone else other than me, He would have given those gifts to me. By comparing, it was as if I was criticizing His \u201cME\u201d artwork. I was telling Him that He made a mistake with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once we become okay with who we are NOT and the gifts we DON\u2019T have, we can focus on who we ARE and what we DO have. I don\u2019t want to play the comparison game! We should realize who we are is by God\u2019s grace. As He continues to keep us on His potter\u2019s wheel, we become His vessels of honor to be used by Him as He sees fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we often fail to realize is that it\u2019s not the greatness or grandness of the talent that matters. It\u2019s what we do with what is in our hands. It\u2019s how God takes what little we may have and multiplies it above and beyond what we could ever comprehend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God gives others what they need for what they do, and He gives you and me what we need for what we do. So\u2026\u2026. Let\u2019s stop looking and scrolling and comparing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God created each one of us with the gifts, the DNA, the personality, the uniqueness, that He wanted us to have. Let\u2019s embrace God\u2019s wisdom and skill that made us exactly Who He made us to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May we be grateful to be one of God\u2019s masterpieces \u2013 no need to compare, but need to make the most of who He made us to be. His beloved sons and daughters \u2013 His masterpieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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