Comparing: Better or Bitter?

Comparison. Girls? We don’t like that word. I guess the gals too. More often than not, we people who live in this fallen world, compare ourselves to other regarding our skills, talent, personality, gadgets and every other stuff that can be compared of. Hence, it’s either we become jealous, discouraged, inferior or we can become boastful, superior. There could be unstoppable desiring of the things we don’t have and when we can’t have it, we become disappointed, depressed, discontented.

Comparing? Inevitable it is. And so were the consequences.

The good thing is that we can still compare in a better way thereby producing better results. How we are supposed to that?

Reading Exodus 3, the burning bush experience of Moses, we can see that HE is just STARTing to know GOD. When GOD called him, HE is so afraid that he hid his face from HIM. The after-verses depicts Moses as a what-if-man, dispirited and pessimistic. He says he can’t speak, neither become the lead. Yet after 30 chapters of the Book of Exodus, in chapter 33, HE is the exact opposite.

What did he do? Nothing.

What did GOD do? Everything.

You see, as we encounter our Creator, we’d be different. He introduces HIMSELF to us as we continue our walk with HIM. The 40-year journey of Israelite to the Promised Land revealed GOD’s character unto HIS people. The journey draw Moses to be closer to HIM each day as HE ask for guidance and listen to HIS commands. It is the same with ours today. If we just continue our journey with GOD, we will eventually get to know GOD. If we just draw to HIM closer each day, our desires are changed. HE becomes our satisfaction. Our desire becomes HIS glory.

So let us go on comparing—comparing our present selves to yesterday’s. Are there any character improvements? What are we desiring yesterday? How about today?

If we diligently seek HIM every moment, a time will definitely come when we’ll hear HIM that HE’s pleased with us and HE’s willing to give anything we could asked HIM. Amazingly, we will not request for beauty, fame, riches nor our present situation be changed. We will ask for HIM.

We will be like a child pleading for his father.

We will request this one thing.

We will utter this words upon HIM.

“Show me YOU.”

“Just a glimpse of YOU, please?”

“I wanna see YOU, dwell in YOU all the days of my life and just worship YOU and be with YOU forever.”

These are the amazing phrases GOD would love to hear and HE loves to grant.

And HE is really most pleased when we are most satisfied in HIM as John Piper quoted.

HIS presence would be enough.

HIS promises would be enough.

HIS love would always be enough.

Fullness. It is in HIM. It is HIM. It is drawing closer each day to our Father who ultimately cares for us and is crazy in love with us. It is in JESUS who came for us to have a full life. It is in Spirit who leads us and changes us from glory to glory.

GOD wants your heart not your performance.

He wants you more than your achievements.

HE’s hurt when you are hurting.

HE cares when you are aching.

You just have to run to HIM. HE will welcome you with HIS arms wide open.

HE is offering HIS embrace.

HE sees you as you are.

HE loves you as are.

And HE compares not.

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