Hi there, thanks for listening to the Sister Circle Podcast.

My name is Crystal Evans Hurst and I'm your host.

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the podcast that's designed

to help you live your life well and to make it a life you love. Listen, you get to choose. Someone in the inner circle,

someone in the inner circle, Miss Kimberly, asked me a question about comparison.

I was not planning on sharing it with the whole wide world, but the answer that I thought

was going to be like a short answer turned into basically a whole teaching and I thought I ought to share it with you.

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But I hope what I teach you today will help you to live your life well.

So, this is what Kimberly asked me, then after that you'll hear the answer.

Here we go.

Kimberly said how do you avoid the comparison trap? Everyone is out here doing all the things,

trying not to keep up with the Joneses,

but now even the Smiths are making me question

my mediocrity.

So let me just say this about comparison.

Comparison is a trap and it is not new.

The devil is really good about deception and even with Jesus in Matthew chapter 4 he was

comparing him to what other people would think about what he has done what he can do or

who he is he says, if you will do this, I will make sure

that everybody else in the world bows down to you because basically you'll

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