The Comparison Trap
Comparison Trap
is just that! It’s a trap. We, as women, fall so easily into that trap.
Maybe it’s because we’re more the “people pleasing-type” or because
we’re so relational but, for whatever reason, we become trapped in it so easily! We
don’t even have to wait until adulthood, nor even our teenage years to start
doing it! Many times it starts when we
are very young and we say “her piece is bigger than mine” or “why does he
always get______ and I get______? Then, as a young teenage girl, her comparison can become even deadly. It’s
a time when we may be seeking approval for our physical appearance and we compare ourselves to the world’s
“standard’ and find that we don’t match up.
So, we become anorexic to achieve that “standard” of approval. The results can be deadly. Even as adults we may still be caught in the comparison trap. We want the best for our children we keep
encouraging (prodding?) them so that they’re the best at ____. We know
they’re the best because we’ve compared them
to others and we know they are. (although we wouldn’t want to admit that’s what
we’ve been comparing/thinking!) How about our cooking? Do we compare how much better our rolls look
and taste then Jessica’s? Or how about our pastor-husband? Do we compare how many people are in our
church on Sunday and are in attendance at our church’s events as compared
to the neighboring church? How about us as grandmothers, do we compare how many grandchildren we have as compared to the Larsons? Let’s call it for what it is—COMPARISON! Let’s confess it for what
it is. Can we call it sin? It’s not being content with what He has
provided for us, or the way He has
uniquely created us. THERE’S DELIVERANCE
FROM COMPARISON! When we yield to Him. When we confess to Him. He says ”there
is great gain in godliness with contentment”
I Timothy 6: 6. In
Luke 7: 23 He again says “blessed is
the man who doesn’t take offense on account of me” I want what He calls great gain and what
receives His blessing. I don’t want what the devil, the world, and my flesh
tells me are my rights, what will make
me happy, nor even that “ I deserve it!” Ladies!
Let’s encourage one another in seeking His transforming work in our lives. He alone can deliver us from the Trap of
Comparison and set us free to live a Life of Contentment.
