The Sin of Comparison on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Dale Johnson, and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people

face.

This week on the podcast I have with me, my friend Adam Tyson.

Before going into pastoral ministry, Adam worked as a physician's assistant in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery in Savannah, Georgia for four years.

He then attended the master's seminary for both MDIV and a doctor of ministry.

Adam served as an associate pastor

of student ministries and outreach at a church in Texas for eight years. But Adam now serves as a

senior pastor of Placerita Bible Church in Santa Clarita, California. He teaches biblical counseling

as an adjunct professor at the Master's University, and Adam is ACBC certified, as well as a fellow candidate with

ACBC. And he's the host of the podcast called Way of Manhood, where he challenges Gen Z men

to be mature in their faith. And he and his lovely wife, Lisa, have five children. Brother,

welcome back to the podcast. Good to have you. Good to be with you, Dale. Always a blessing. Now, interesting, we talk about stuff on the podcast and I'm like, okay, that's not stuff that I struggle with. So just fire away. But today, we're talking about the sin of comparison. This is a hard one. We all deal with this to some degree. I would put myself in this category. Man, we struggle with this to such a great degree, fear of man, and all the rest of it. Why do so many people struggle with this sin of comparison? Oh, man, like you said, it's just natural to all of us, right? We're talking about the sin of comparison. You could call it the sin of covetousness. You know, we're thinking about the 10th commandment, thou shalt not covet, right? In so many ways, this sin is manifested

in our lives because, you know what we are tempted to do, Dale? We're tempted to compare ourselves to others. And that's just partly natural, right? You can't help it. We live in a world. You live with people. You look at what they do. You look at what they're saying. And it's just manifested in a thousand ways. I mean, think about, think about when you were in school. You know,

you take a thousand ways. I mean,

think about when you were in school. You know, you take a hard test. And the first thing you ask, when the grades are given out the next day is everybody says, what? How'd you do? How'd you do? What'd you make? What did you make? You know, it happens at work, you know, guys are trying to get ahead. I mean, we live in a capitalistic society, so some of that's a necessary evil,

but you got to get ahead. I mean, we live in a capitalistic

society, so some of that's a necessary evil, but you got to outsell your competitor and you got

to know how you're doing. And it can be a struggle sometimes, though, about did I get that

promotion, did I get acknowledged for the work that I do? And Dale, it happens even for stay-at-home moms.

Nobody is escaping this, right? Stay-at-home moms can

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