You know when you know something, but then you experience it, and then you really know it. You realize that before what you had was just a shadow of knowledge. You saw it, but it had no substance, and you couldn’t get a hold of it.
My experience came in prayer and this is now something I truly know.
Comparison really isn’t healthy.
You can’t know whom you are when you compare.
Yet, from a young age, its what we seem to naturally do.
Compare
Comparison generally leaves me with the mindset that I’m not enough. I don’t look good enough, run fast enough, love well enough; I’m not good enough for her. I am left wishing I were different. More like that other guy. Because there always seems to be someone smarter, faster, stronger, and better looking. Someone who seems to have things figured out and who knows what it takes to be a good Christian.
If my mind isn’t beating my sense of self down when I compare, it is dragging me someplace far more dangerous. When I compare, and think I’m enough, it’s because I am better than the other person. I place myself higher than them. I'm worth more. He is not enough…
I’ve missed the significant of the Body. We are all equal.
I don’t want to compare myself to anyone, not even Jesus.
I will do my best to imitate Him. I saw how He showed love and I want that too.
The difference between imitation and comparison is my ability to be ok with the other guy being better than me, and me being good with where I am.
This is all about a change in heart and recognition of identity.
Jesus came and thought that all men were enough.
Even broken I am loved enough to die for.
I don’t let myself believe this sometimes. I’ll believe a lie telling me other wise. What I have forgotten to do is declare what is Truth, because He said its true. His actions proved its true.
This is why reading a bible and knowing His voice is so important.
He told me all these things while I ran with Patrick this morning. He used my comparison with Patrick to show me all these truths about His heart and my mind.
We serve and worship a living God who is still speaking to His children.
I love Jesus and all of you
-Mark
