Comparison is sneaky, isn’t it?
Sometimes it’s how someone else looks. Sometimes it’s their family, their job, their spiritual walk... whatever it is, it’s so easy to measure ourselves against what we see in someone else.
I’ve done it more times than I can count. But I’ll never forget the moment I saw it hit my son.
Years ago, I took Tyler, our youngest, on a Boy Scout camping trip. He has autism, so it took time to find something he really connected with. But he loved Scouts. At one point, all the boys lined up on stage to get their badges. The boys around him had uniforms covered in beads and patches. But Tyler’s was mostly blank. He had just started.
I watched him glance at their shirts, then down at his own. And I could tell… he was asking himself, “Does this mean they’re better Scouts than me?”
He wasn’t less than. He was just in a different part of the journey.
That moment stuck with me. Because I need that reminder too.
“He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 1:6)
You’re not behind. You’re being built.
And the One building you doesn’t make mistakes.