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Ok, ok the truth about this comparison series is that you actually are able to compare yourself to someone else… I may have stretched the truth by saying you can’t compare yourself to anyone… but if I am to be completely honest - then yes, you get to compare yourself to the one person you do not want to compare yourself to… and who is that person?

 

 

  -  Compare yourself to yourself

 

*When you get to heaven God is not going to look at you and say “how come you were not more like _________” He will say Were you who I created you to be?

 

 

Galatians 6:4-5 the Message

Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

 

As is! On a rack.... God loves us AS IS!

But he expects us to grow in him…

 

So you get to compare yourself with yourself. 

 

One safe way to compare yourself is by asking this question. What would the best version of Garth do? What would the Garth who is madly in love with Jesus and trusts him completely do? 

This is a simple yet effective way to compare yourself to yourself and see if you are in fact growing and becoming more like Jesus. 

 

 

 

 

I find a quote from the movie The Princess Bride helpful.

The villain (Vizzini) accuses buttercup saying I suppose you think you’re brave, don’t you?

She responds with humility and wisdom. Only compared to some..

Maybe we could answer that question like this… “I suppose you think your brave, don’t you?

More than I was yesterday.

 

 

And isn’t that really what God is asking of us? Just to be a little more like him today than we were yesterday? 

So how do you measure up to you… from yesterday?