{"id":703,"date":"2023-08-30T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=703"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:40:37","slug":"comparing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devos.mbros.info\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Comparing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good Morning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].&nbsp;&nbsp;-Galatians&nbsp;6:5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is really easy to compare with other people and justify what we do as okay. Comparison is never a good thing and it will either make you settle for less than what you are capable of or it will make you unhappy and discontent because you don\u2019t have what someone else has, either way it is not healthy. Once we start comparing it really starts to muddy the water on what is our responsibility because we start living according to someone else\u2019s convictions instead of our own. We are all responsible for ourselves and in no way should we justify our actions and life based off of some other person, but we should live according to what God and the Bible teach us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it, it just blooms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTake responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;-Rodolfo Costa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dad Joke of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m on two diets now\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wasn\u2019t getting enough food on just one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning! 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