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Why do you constantly compare yourself to others?

If you’re like me, you don’t intentionally play the comparison game. It just happens. Before you know it, you’ve sized yourself up, measured someone else by your own standards, or concluded – after observation and the collection of a few facts – that you’re inferior or superior to someone else.

Comparison is an ugly game.

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Jesus warned us not to get caught up in it, especially when it came to how we “look” religiously.

In Luke 18:9-14, Jesus told a parable to “some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else.” He told of a Pharisee who thanked God he wasn’t like other people (particularly a tax collector he saw enter the temple) but was one who fasted twice a week and gave a tenth of all he received.

But Jesus said “I tell you that this man, [the tax collector who pleaded for God to have mercy on him] rather than the other, went hom 4 Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others - Crosswalk DAWUZ