When does this fade?
This feeling of insecurity, this feeling of inaptness, this feeling of discontentment.
Is there a cut off time when you actually stop comparing yourself to others?
Is it a personal decision? is it a God given revelation? is it due to circumstances? (ie: death of a family member, turning 30 or becoming a father)
Matthew 13:19-23 (Amplified)
19 [h]While anyone is hearing the Word of the kingdom and does not grasp and comprehend it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the roadside.
20 As for what was sown on thin (rocky) soil, this is he who hears the Word and at once welcomes and accepts it with joy;
21 Yet it has no real root in him, but is temporary (inconstant, lasts but a little while); and when affliction or trouble or persecution comes on account of the Word, at once he is caused to stumble [he is repelled and begins to distrust and desert Him Whom he ought to trust and obey] and he falls away.
22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the Word, but the cares of the world and the pleasure and delight and glamour and deceitfulness of riches choke and suffocate the Word, and it yields no fruit.
23 As for what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the Word and grasps and comprehends it; he indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundred times as much as was sown, in another sixty times as much, and in another thirty.
Yesterday’s sermon reminded me that I am weak and have been deceit by the riches and cares of this world. the turning point is now, whether i have a job or not; whether i have sales or not; i choose to have a soft heart and trust God in everything.
Being a Victor 