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Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

There Is a Reason, Part 3: Stop Comparing Your Calling

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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Christianity, Message, Life.church, Messages, Sermons, Sermon, Lifechurch.tv, Christian, Craig Groeschel, Life Church, Religion & Spirituality, Lifechurch

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Your purpose is yours alone. God created you to live out your unique calling. No one else can do it for you. And you can’t live out anyone else’s. Join Pastor Craig Groeschel to see how when you start to compare your calling with someone else’s, you might find yourself disappointed, discouraged, or disillusioned with your life.

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0:00.0

I'm wondering, do any of you have a love hate relationship with social media?

0:07.0

I'm curious.

0:08.0

Do any of you, like with maybe Instagram or Facebook, whatever your source says?

0:14.0

Do you have a love hate relationship with it?

0:16.0

Okay.

0:17.0

Like, I love the fact that I can stay in touch with what's going on in the lives of my friends

0:21.0

and see their funny silly pictures and be inspired and see who's having kids or what their kids are doing.

0:28.0

I love that part of it, but sometimes I hate it.

0:32.0

I hate it when what I get sucked into it for too long or when I'm having a perfectly good day

0:39.0

and someone else is having a better day than mine and then something I feel like my life sucks.

0:45.0

Does that happen to any of you ever?

0:47.0

Like, you start to compare and if you're like, my life is not going so good at all.

0:51.0

I want to talk a little bit about the curse of comparing and a thought we've covered before

0:56.0

is this the fastest way to kill something special is to compare it to something else.

1:03.0

The very fastest way to kill something that's otherwise very special and meaningful is to compare it to someone else.

1:11.0

I don't know about you, but I don't just compare what someone else has.

1:15.0

Like, I know some people like, she's got more shoes than Nordstroms and I hate that.

1:19.0

Or, you know, it used to be when you go on vacations.

1:21.0

Like, isn't that his third vacation of the year and I'm not going anywhere.

1:25.0

Like, the only place I'm going is like, loss back yardos, you know, or whatever.

1:31.0

And I don't just compare, you know, what someone has or where they're going.

1:35.0

But the thing that gets me sometimes is what I compare, what they can do that I can't do.

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