WHEN WE COMPARE ourselves with others, we actually inhibit ourselves from becoming who God wants us to be…

He gives gifts to us (Romans 11.29), and each of us has something to contribute.

I do not gauge myself and my actions by other people’s gifts, but by the gifts God has given to me.  Steve Prokopchak, Counseling Basics, 26

“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. 6Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; 7 or ministry, let us use it in our ministering; he who teaches, in teaching; 8 he who exhorts, in exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.”  Romans 12.3-8

Mike Benson