Embracing Our Unique Journey: The Power of Love Over Comparison

• By candidasullivan
• February 5, 2025
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I will not measure up if I compare my journey to someone else’s. Regardless of how I view it, it is an inaccurate assessment of me and my progress. However, I stack up will be used against me.

If I’m doing better than someone else, the enemy will try to inflate my ego and tell me how wonderful I am. When I believe I am better than someone else, it hurts me and comes between God and me. On the other hand, if I beat myself up because I don’t measure up to someone else, then that stands in my way as well because it attacks my faith and stands in my way of fulfilling my purpose.

Honestly, I don’t know if any type of comparison is healthy. Even comparing myself to a different version of myself can be damaging, especially if I was in a better place years ago.

To me, love feels like the better option.

When I can love myself through every season of life and find gratitude in the good and the bad, there’s no desire for comparison. While it can be healthy to see our growth, we have to see it through a lens of compassion.

Negative thoughts are destructive. They lead to self-sabotage and keep us in places of pain. We can break free by choosing to see our lives with love, compassion, and gratitude. When we learn to give those things to ourselves, we can freely give them to others.

The enemy wants us to believe that someone else has to be less so we can be more or vice versa. But that’s not true. God has an abundance of gifts and love for us all. We just have to believe it and accept it.

Did you know that we cause a lot of our pain by not believing or accepting God’s word?

Doubting what God tells us leads to pain. God doesn’t lie, so doubting Him doesn’t make sense. Look what happened to Eve. She believed the enemy’s lies over the Lord’s truth, and her actions created great pain.

God can help our unbelief. He can move mountains and make ways that we can’t even imagine. But our hearts have to desire the Lord and truly want His truth.

When we want the truth, over half-truths and sugarcoated lies, God will reveal them to us. The truth hurts, but not as bad as believing the lies and accepting them as truth.

God can help us not only accept the truth but also love it. Once He opens our eyes and shows us things, we can’t unsee them. We can reject God’s truth, walk in darkness, or accept it and walk in the light. That’s really the only two options.

One leads to peace, joy, and love, and the other leads to destruction, misery, and pain.