DO NOT COMPARE YOURSELF WITH OTHERS, ONLY FOOLISH PEOPLE DO. 2Cor.10:12
- A LADY met one of her class mates about five years after school and she could not believe her eyes cause her friend was
gorgeously dressed sitting at the owners' side (back seat) of the latest sleek Toyota Land Cruiser SUV. She went home feeling awful and very disappointed in herself. She thought she was a failure. What she didn't know was that her friends' uncle had sent his driver to drive her home from her visit to her uncle's place.
- Juliana nagged her husband always for not being romantic. She accused him for not getting down to open the car door for her as her friend Jane's husband did when he dropped her off at work. What Juliana didn't know was that Jane's husband's car had a faulty door that could only be opened from the outside.
- Sister Amaka and sister Racheal were neighbors and friends. Sister Amaka's husband was a pastor while sister Rachael's husband worked in the bank. Each time sister Amaka went for grocery, she came back with so many bags, carried on her left and right hands and her children were looking healthy and well cared for. So sister Rachael became jealous and troubled thinking that Amaka's husband was giving her more house keeping allowance than her husband who worked in the bank. So she approached sister Amaka and asked how much her husband was giving her as upkeep allowance. Sister Amaka told her it was so great without telling her the exact amount. But she thought wow, that her husband must be very wicked and not caring for her children and herself despite earning more than Amaka's husband. So she nagged and quarreled with her husband to the point of the marriage almost leading to a divorce but for the intervention of their pastor. While their pastor was settling them, sister Amaka was called and asked why she told her that her husband was giving her great house keeping allowance. Amaka asked, why should she ask me how much my husband was giving me as upkeep allowance? That since she wanted to make mockery of her and her husband because her husband was not as wealthy as Rachael's husband, she had to protect her family by speaking faith. That she had been living by faith and applying wisdom. When ever she went for grocery, she looked for cheap, alternatives and quantity as her money could afford, and that they ate whatever God provided in love, peace and gratitude. Rachael had to go on her knees begging her husband for the mixed up.
- Emeka's wife went to visit one of her childhood friends and was very sad for seeing the 3 lovely kids of her friend playing around. Her problem was that she had only one child and have been struggling to conceive for the past seven years. What she didn't know was that one of those kids who was the biological child of her friend had sickle cell and had just a year to live; the other two are adopted.
- LIFE does not have a universal measuring tool; SO CREATE YOURS AND USE IT.
Looking at people and comparing yourself with them will not make you better but bitter. If God can open your eyes to see the real story of those you compare yourself with, you will stop doing that and continue to thank Him for His Goodness in your life.
SO, BE GRATEFUL TO GOD FOR WHAT YOU ARE/HAVE CAUSE OUR GOD IS A LOVING FATHER WHO KNOWS WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU.
Live and be happy with what you have. Do not compare yourself with others for you do not have the detailed story of their life.
Remained blessed.