Crushing Comparison

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It seems natural to compare ourselves to others. As humans, we compare appearances, careers, marriages, and even spouses. Society encourages it. The chief problem of comparisons is that they’re usually based on romanticized half-truths. Most often when we compare, we base expectations of ourselves on standards that aren’t accurate – they’re perceived. Comparisons stifle progress; only truth in light of the gospel causes real growth. Thanks for listening! Please remember to subscribe, rate, and review. As always, we welcome feedback... simply go to FierceMarriage.com/Podcast (https://FierceMarriage.com/Podcast) to leave a comment or to ask a question! Become a Patron! Support for the Fierce Marriage Podcast comes from partners like you via Patreon. If our content has helped you, we'd be honored if you'd consider becoming a Patreon supporter! Visit Patreon.com/FierceMarriage (https://Patreon.com/FierceMarriage).

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0:00.0	So I think we deal with this when we wake up in the morning.
0:04.3	Oh my word.
0:05.0	This whole idea of comparison.
0:07.2	And I think it looks different in marriage a little bit, but you know, we try, it just, we, we look,
0:13.1	we turn to our phones, we turn to everything, right?
0:15.4	And we're striving to find this value and identity and things that just will leave us empty and broken all the time.
0:22.3	Yeah.
0:22.6	Instead of looking to Christ who calls us to rest in him.
0:26.9	And I think this is so hard for us as believers.
0:29.3	It's absolutely the hardest thing.
0:31.0	I was just telling you.
0:33.0	It's like I wake up in the morning and you're saying wake up in the morning.
0:35.2	It starts.
0:36.0	It starts when you're conscious, your conscious.
0:38.5	Yes.
0:39.2	It starts the battle wages, the war.
0:42.0	Yeah.
0:42.7	And so for a big and we compare our income, we compare how we look, we compare how we feel, how we appear,
0:50.1	how we, you know, all the attention some people get, we compare to anything and everything we can find.
0:55.0	We want to get all our shortcomings figured out, right?
0:57.5	Yeah.
0:58.4	Yeah.
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