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John chapter 21 verses 21 and 22. 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? You follow me.

Exclamation point. Get the context here. Jesus is talking with Peter right before this

about what's going to happen to him in the days ahead and specifically how he's going to die.

And then Peter sees John and says to Jesus, well, what about him?

And Jesus looks back at him and says, what is that to you?

Even if I keep him alive until I come, you follow me.

Jesus is addressing here in Peter and in us the tendency we have to compare ourselves with others,

with other followers of Jesus and with what God is doing in their lives.

This plays out in so many different ways in our lives.

When we walk through trial and we see others that are not walking through trial,

and we think, why? Why me? Why not them?

Or when we see God working in someone's life in a beautiful, even powerful way,

and we think, why is God not working in my life in this way?

Or vice versa, maybe God is doing something in us through us,

leading us to a mountaintop and we look around and we can compare ourselves with others

who may not be seeing or being used by God in the same way.

And Jesus in the middle of it all is saying to every single one of us,

you follow me. God is working in so many different ways in every single one of our lives.

And he is always, he is doing what he's doing in me and through me and in you and through you

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