those who compare and those who don't...

“Some think competition, we think partnership”,
was a slogan I heard in somebody’s business
promotion.
It’s a nice thought , but just like all man’s great
philosophical statements, it has a problem.
It actually is an expression of a competition that is
based on comparison.
Yes, I agree that comparison is one of the ways
of learning.
But to use comparison, as the means of measuring
a person’s life, will never give you the right results.
Comparing our own spirituality with an other man’s
walk with God, is absurd. God has chosen not to have
the same relationship with everybody.
Man is too unique for that, like the Russians say,
“he cannot be repeated”.
If we stay on the level of comparison, we’ll just
be more frustrated and most probably depressed.
You don’t have to be anyone else, but you.
Because if you were someone else,
who would be you?
“But they , measuring themselves by themselves,
and comparing themselves among themselves,
are not wise.” II Cor.10:12
Well, even Paul had hard time stating this
truth without comparison. It sneaks in so subtly.