Comparison

Hello and Welcome. it’s amazing to have you here..

Comparison as I understand it is cross checking or judging your actions with the actions of other people. Growing up, a lot of us have been compared to “our mates” in behaviors, achievements and the rest. There is always one thing or another that brings about comparison and subconsciously, we too now use what others do to judge how well or how bad we do certain things.

In the body of Christ, I’ve noticed a lot of comparisons, I for one have been attacked because of my stance with Jesus. A very close person to me bursted out and asked me if I’m the only one that Jesus saved, because I do like I love him more; it was a shocker to me, I never “experredit”. I actually got angry and distanced myself from him because I didn’t want anybody to water my small fire because I’m “intimidating” them. Constantly, I get these statements “No dey do like say na only you sabi go church”, “you dey make me feel like say I no dey serve God well” and the likes…

Now, do you know what is funny about the whole thing, in as much as I don’t confront people who seem to be doing “better” in God than I am, I do compare what others do with what I do. For example, I see someone sweatlessly claiming to pray 4 hours stretch (I’ve heard 12 hours even) and I’m like looking at my 1 hour 30 minutes that I even struggled to stay in prayers and I’m like “omo nawa ohhh” when will I graduate from this level and I subconsciously downplay my time with God because it is not “4 hours”. This attitude of comparison is wrong, In as much as we strive to grow in God and be completely intoxicated in the things of God, we don’t get there by trying to or because someone else has gotten there, we grow because we love God and we seek him by the help of the Holyghost and over time, Godly character, lengthy prayer time, word time, complete drunkenness in God etc will eventually come to play.

15 minutes in prayer? Awesome, start from there and grow. Forcing 12 hours that isn’t led by the Holyghost will exhaust you! You’ve talked to one person about Jesus in a week? Amazing, start from there and grow to two per week. You want to worship like Min. Theopilus Sunday and Evang. Lawrence Oyor yet all that comes out of your mouth is the worship of a new believer? No problems, please worship in that little way. No need to exhaust yourself because of comparisons… just to mention a few, because there are so many other aspects where we compare ourselves to eachother, it is very unhealthy.

I always beg myself to follow God completely with my heart and strive for deeper realms because I love God not because someone else is already there; same for you reading this. This way we grow without exhausting ourselves. There was a time I thought prayer was boring and now here I am, not the best place I can be in my prayer life but it’s a process and I’m here for all of it! You should be too. 

STRIVE TO GROW BUT NOT ON THE GROUNDS OF COMPARISON.