Games We Play // The Comparison Game

You have a roof over your head every night. That's part of your handful. You have clothes on your back. That's part of your handful. You have a job. Even that that job isn't something you love. You have a job. You have a handful. But we are so tempted to compare this handful, but you have one, you've got one and Solomon is like, it's better to have one handful with and be content with that one handful than to chase after two, than to to toil and work and drive after two because chasing that second handful is gonna cost you. So the question today, the the primary question of the day is, what's that second handful gonna cost you? [00:25:36] (43 seconds)  #ContentWithOneHandful

Some of you are toiling and working and driving to have more, get more, be more, do more, be somebody else like you're driving after and I'm it's what's it gonna cost you? It's gonna cost you exhaustion. It's gonna lead you to go into debt that you don't need to be going into. For some of you, you you're you're driving after that second handful and what you're doing is you're you're sacrificing time relationship with your kids. You're giving that up in order to chase this handful. What's it gonna cost you? We often we miss out on on the good things that god gave us because we're trying to go for more. Is it gonna cost you your mental health? [00:26:27] (42 seconds)  #CostOfChasingMore

Fix your focus on Jesus. We're going to sing about this in just a minute. It's not enough to just simply believe the right things about Jesus. That's a great starting point, but you gotta follow Jesus. If there's we're we're we spend so much of our time, like, chasing after somebody or some image of something that we want. If you wanna keep up with somebody, keep up with Jesus. If you wanna focus on somebody else other than yourself in your own race, there's one person that you can focus on, Jesus. [00:32:44] (33 seconds)  #FixYourFocusOnJesus

And it this stood out to me. One of the commentators, he made the comment. He said, I don't know if you guys have noticed this, but she has not looked back one time. She has not looked back a single time to look how far back team, the second place team is. She is running her race. Those were his words. She's running her race. She's focused on herself. We have to do the same. Where is it that God has placed you? What is it that is unique to you and and your place, your position in life right now? What is it? Run that race. Second, fix your focus on Jesus. [00:32:07] (37 seconds)  #RunYourRace

We go, I I We we tend to just kind of not even see those things anymore. We we we start to even lack trust in God. We start to lose our faith in God. Why why is it that God wouldn't give me whatever, you know, fill in the blank, and he'd give it to them. We begin to lack that trust. God, I I worked hard for this. I worked hard. I sacrificed a bunch for this. I walked through a whole lot of valleys in order to get here. You know the things that I walked through. Why am I not experiencing the things that they're experiencing? We begin to lose faith. We begin to lose our trust in God. Again, envy starts small. [00:18:57] (36 seconds)  #LosingTrustInGod

You nervous laugh, I get, but you've thought it. I've thought it. Right? We are not when it comes to the narratives that we think about other people, like when when something good comes to other people that we are envious of, the the narratives that we write when there is envy in our heart is they're not kind. They're not kind. We we assume the worst in those situations. You know what else is true of envy? When envy is growing in our hearts, we also become less grateful. We miss out on the good things that we have because of the things that we don't have. [00:18:26] (31 seconds)  #GratitudeOverEnvy

Some people don't work at all. Some people have no drive. Some people are lazy in life. That those people are fools, he's saying. We should have some drive. We should have a a desire to grow and and progress and achieve. That's okay. Hard work is alright. Trying to to, provide for yourself and your family, that's okay. But when it is rooted in envy, it ruins us. It's okay to be better than yesterday. It's okay to try to be better than last year, but not because of what you see in other people. [00:23:06] (31 seconds)  #WorkWithoutEnvy

You can never get enough in your life to be satisfied. You will never have enough in your life to be satisfied. You will never be enough to be satisfied. You will never achieve enough to be satisfied. We wanna be richer. We wanna be smarter. We wanna be bigger. We wanna be prettier. We wanna be more muscular. We wanna be, you know, fill in the blank. We want all this stuff. And Solomon's like, you can't catch it. [00:21:54] (27 seconds)  #YouCantCatchEnough