COMPARISON DRAIN PURPOSE! ELUDE THE LIFE OF COMPARISON
The great tragedy that has befallen mankind is the alarming rate of comparison. I am not against comparison when it is on the bases of positive descriptions. Why are people so fully driven with the life of comparison which have actually limited so many in living their true life and fulfiling purpose. There is more to life than living one’s life trying to derive value for his or herself by comparing him or herself to someone else.
The life of comparison is the reason so many people are still searching for the true meaning of life even when they are fulfilling purpose. People believe the true meaning of life is about wealth and nothing but making wealth. That is why many young people have developed the urge to look at life, its success and its fulfillment through the angle of money. Character development is now the story of the dead.
Shun comparison
Eccl.3.11 – He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
The reason why there are so much atrocities and violence all over the place is because many want to meet up with their comparison. Don’t you see that Ebube is now in money? Does he have two heads? What makes him look special from us? He has changed level since he made money. We used to be the same street guys years back but now he does not have anything to do with us again. Shey, it is money, I must make money by all means.
Once it get to the point that one will say I will make money by all means, I can tell you it will only take the grace of God for such person not to be involved in all kinds of immoral acts for the sake to acquire money. This is why many join cultism. This is why many join Armed robbery. This is why some ladies are selling their bodies so cheap in the name of making money, swimming in prostitution.
Comparison always leads to damnation
I can’t forget in a hurry when little Chukwudi of those days suddenly became a terror in the community. Nobody could believe he would indulge in debauched life style of harassing people and taking their possessions by force. This was happening early the year 2000 when he said if he does not drive a car this year, he will die. People thought because he is a conductor at the moment that probably he is working hard to make savings that will enable him secure his own car.
Not until that fateful morning, the disaster that led to his untimely death took place. First of all, him and his gang started robbing house after house each night. Before the december that very year,he was caught and was killed at that very scene. He never lived to see the december. He never lived to get the car. And he never lived to tell the story.
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs chapter fourteen verses twelve KJV)
“There is a way that looks harmless enough; lookagain – it leads straight to hell.” (Proverbs sixteen verse twenty five. MSB)
You can see that negative comparison is a destiny killer. It makes some persons to leave their true purpose in life and start pursuing shadows. Negative comparison is never a safety idea anyone can venture into. Going into such act is like someone without legs clamouring to run. It is a bird without wings trying to fly. No matter how it tries that bird will always hit itself on the floor and sustain huge injuries if it persist trying to fly.
Quit comparison with everything within you
The person you are comparing that you guys are mates, were you guys born the same day? Were you guys born from the same parents? Are you guys of the same height? Are you guys of the same complexion? Are you guys from the community? The fact remains nobody is your mate.
You came into the earth alone. You will also depart this life alone. If you get yourself into a mess while comparing yourself with your mates, you are the only one who will face the consequences. None of your mate will face or share the trauma with you.
Conclusion
God made all things beautiful in His time. Just as you arrived the earth, some day you will depart this earth. God made you beautiful to fulfill a specific course, not to live this life comparing yourself with someone else. Allow others to compare your life with theirs, not you comparing yours with theirs.
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