A Proverb a day gets yon no your way!
Here is the Daily Dose for Thursday, January 14, 2016.
A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like a cancer in the bones. Proverbs 14:30
Comparison Shopping
We live in a world based on comparisons. Is this one better than that one. Does this one taste better than that one. Is this person the greatest of all time, or is that person the greatest of all time. We go round by round comparing things, trying to figure out what is the absolute best. We do it when we are looking at restaurants, cars, clothes, vacations, you name it we will find a way to compare it. It is that natural bent towards comparison that leads us many times not to just compare things we are looking to purchase but to compare lives to other people’s lives. Are we doing as well as they are? Are we as happy as they are? Do we have all the things that they have. When we come out on top we are fine, but when our comparisons leave us wanting they will often lead to one of the most dangerous things in lie, jealousy.
People often think that the root of jealousy is wanting what someone else has, or not thinking they deserve it. That is not true. The root of jealousy is not being happy with what you have. To be jealous, you not only have to want what someone has, you also have to be dissatisfied, with the things that you have. You have to look at the things that you have worked for, strived for, sacrificed for and been blessed with and say that’s not good enough. You have to look at the things you have earned and say, I want what they have. In short, you have to despise yourself, and want to be someone else.
There comes a time when you have to celebrate you. Living by comparison will never make you better, it will only make you feel superior to those with less and inferior to those who have more. True happiness and joy comes with being content and proud of who you are, where you are and what you have. If you want more, patiences, hard work and the hand of God will lead you to them. In the mean time, stop comparison shopping for a new life and have a joyful and grateful heart for what you already have. You’ll feel much better.
Be Blessed,
Rev
Daryl Williams 