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Notes

COMPARISON

Comparing ourselves to others is a direct path to unhappiness.  

Our comparison with others is never accurate since we have different needs and personalities.

Comparing ourselves with others can make us focus on the wrong things and turns into an unhealthy competition.

Comparison is a game everyone plays, but nobody wins!

We are often our own worst enemy when it comes to finding contentment

Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have. I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything.

I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little.

For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.

If comparison happens naturally, how do we avoid becoming discontented and dysfunctional?

Later, Jesus appeared again to the disciples beside the Sea of Galilee.

When they got there, they found breakfast waiting for them—fish cooking over a charcoal fire, and some bread.

Peter turned around and saw behind them the disciple Jesus loved—the one who had leaned over to Jesus during supper and asked, “Lord, who will betray you?”

Peter asked Jesus, “What about him, Lord?”

Jesus replied, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? As for you, follow me.”

Contentment comes from realizing God’s grace is an undeserved gift given freely to us and others.

1. Coveting leads to chasing the things wrongly 

When comparison strikes, choosing to celebrate God’s undeserved goodness and grace in our lives and in others leads to contentment.