The Curse Of Comparison

What is the curse of comparison? It is when man measures himself against man. This also gets in the realm of fear of man. I believe the curse of comparison is at the center of man's sin; at least it’s at the center of my sin. for example, when I see someone getting blessed with something, I immediately go inward and wonder why I'm not getting blessed (yuk).   I think we would be surprised how often in a day we measure ourselves against other people. What I mean by measuring ourselves is basically saying how well am I doing? Am I going in the right direction? How bad I am? How good I am? If you think about it, it seems to be the original sin where man wanted to compare himself with God and it continues to plague us, even as Christians. Paul talks about man measuring themselves against each other in 2 Corinthians.

2 Corinthians 10:12 Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

Paul tells us when we measure ourselves against others it leaves us without understanding. Job 28:28 Job says, “understanding is turning from evil” so if we continue to live horizontally, meaning comparing ourselves with others we will have a hard time distinguishing good from evil. We know that God has called us to be in the world but not of it, meaning walk amongst evil but not get caught up in it. So if we are called to walk out our faith in an evil world and not get caught up in evil we make it harder to distinguish what evil is by comparing ourselves with man.

I think the bottom line is we are sinners in need of a Savior and if we truly understood that we would stop comparing ourselves with each other and start rejoicing in what God has done. You see, I need as much blood from Christ as Hitler. We can never say, “he or she is worse than I am” because we all need the same amount of blood of our Savior. And the more we understand this beautiful love from God; our attention goes from the curse of comparison; to joy filled dependence