Galatians 6:4-5 (Easy-To-Read Version) says, 'Don’t compare yourself with others. Just look at your own work to see if you have done anything to be proud of. You must each accept the responsibilities that are yours'.
Galatians 6:4-5 (NLT) says, 'Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. For we are each responsible for our own conduct'.
One fastest way of discouraging yourself and getting trapped in jealousy is when you start comparing yourself with others. Whether it's comparing one person with another person, one family with another family, one career with another career, or even one ministry with another ministry, no two persons, families, careers (either path or timing), or ministries (either path or timing) are exactly the same!
You see, God has a specific plan for each of us, and God has a specific timing for each of us! You won’t fulfill that specific plan or timing of God by looking at others!
Isaiah 26:3 (NKJV) says, 'You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You'.
The word 'stayed' here is 'samak' in Hebrew, meaning 'to rest oneself, to set oneself, to stand fast, to be sustained on'. That is to say your mind is rested on Him, your mind is set on Him, your mind stands fast on His plans/purposes for you, and your mind is sustained on all that He has spoken for you to be (and to do)!
The word 'trusts' here is 'bawtakh' in Hebrew, meaning 'to put confidence, to be secure, to be sure, to be care-less'. That is to say when your confidence, security, and surety (i.e. the state of being sure) is in the LORD, it doesn't matter what other people say or think about you, as long as you know you are doing what the LORD says! In fact, you couldn't care less (i.e. not 'concerned' or 'affected' at all) whatever other people may want to say or think about you! Why? Because your security is not in man, but your security is in the LORD!
And that is how you are kept in perfect peace of the LORD! Shalom Shalom! Perfect Shalom!
Comparing yourself with others is also a joy-stealer, joy-killer, and joy-destroyer! Steal, kill, destroy! It robs you from living your own life, and living it more abundantly!
John 10:10 (NKJV) says, 'The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly'.
The words 'more abundantly' here is 'perissos' in Greek, and it means 'exceedingly abundantly above all that you ask or think of'. In other words, beyond measure!
Nehemiah 8:10 says, 'for the joy of the Lord is your strength'! Therefore, don't let anyone (or the devil) steal, kill or destroy your joy! Because if you lose your joy, you lose your strength to carry on in life!
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