Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning with the Master.

For we devote ourselves to the Lord, daily with you.

Good morning, you guys.

Good morning, indeed, we're picking up with day four of our killing comparison devotional.

In the Bible app, there's a link to that in the description.

If you guys want to follow along with us and the scriptures all up in this one,

so Tories are going to take it from here.

Yes, yeah, let's do it.

Today's devotional says this.

We have spent the last few days exploring the origins and outcomes of toxic comparison in our lives.

Today and tomorrow, we want to focus our attention on how to harness the power of healthy comparison

so we can kill toxic comparison in our lives.

Our focus verse is an important call to action.

Matthew 7.12 says this,

So when everything due to others, what you would have them due to you,

for this sums up the law and the prophets.

When our insecurity gets triggered, we feel left out, overlooked,

less than and discouraged.

But what if we turned those feelings on their head to commit ourselves to making sure

others don't feel that way because of our actions?

What if we made an intentional effort to include, to celebrate,

encourage and affirm people when we're feeling left out, overlooked, discouraged, and not good enough?

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