Do you tend to compare yourself to other people? Jeff explores how the habit of comparing ourselves to others—especially in a world shaped by social media and expectations—can rob us of gratitude and distort our identity.

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Scripture Verses

Galatians 1:10 

“Am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ.”

1 Thessalonians 2:4 

“But just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please men, but to please God who tests our hearts.”

Proverbs 29:25 

“The fear of man lays a snare, but he who trusts in the Lord is safe.”

John 12:42–43 

“Nevertheless many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.”

Galatians 2:20 

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

John 5:44 

“How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?”

2 Corinthians 5:9 

“So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.”

1 Samuel 16:7 

“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’”

Ephesians 6:6 

“Not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.”

John 21:20–22 

“Peter turned and saw following them the disciple whom Jesus loved… When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, ‘Lord, what about this man?’ Jesus said to him, ‘If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!’”