Do you know how to compare?

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Do you know how to compare?

1 Corinthians 2:10-16 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit, For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

When you become a Christian and walk in this world, you must know how to compare. We live in a world where nothing is what people say it is.

Some of us have parents that tell us they love us, but they are never there when we need them. Then in turn the children say I love you mom & dad and leave the house with every intention of not doing their parent’s will. After all it is what they have learned, you say one thing and do another. Then they grow up and become married or not, and the cycle starts over again. Only because they do not know how to compare.

Your parents take you to church and drop you off hoping, you will get more out of church then they ever did. They know there is something there you need but, they have never had it work for them. You find out that the preacher’s kids are the worst ones there and you wonder what is this all about. Your parents insist it is what you need even if they do not go. You become sexually assaulted by a church member, and you do not say a word because you do not want to be an outcast, after all the church is where God is. isn’t it? You believe only, because you do not know how to compare.

Your job is not what people said it was when you started. You work with people that say they are something they are not. The company said your hours would be one thing and you end up working all different hours. You spend all that you think you have coming and then the job you find out is not everything they said it would be, but you are in debt and they know you will not leave because you need every penny you can get. You do not want to be like everyone else, you want to do right. But the pressures of doing right, you think, are a lot harder than just going with the crowd. Only because you do not know how to compare

If you own a company, people come to you day after day with resumes that are not close to what they say they are. Sales people bring jobs in to your company day after day and they never are what you price them to be. They lie to you and then you lie to them because you know they are lying, and the business is one big lie. If you complain they say “sorry will take care of that problem,” not because it is a problem but they want your money. They know they will make it up on the next job. If they can keep you they will get theirs back, and they know it. They will wine and dine you, and you believe they like you, only because you do not know how to compare.

You may have a person that is your best friend, or so you think. You find out about Christ, and find out the truth and if that truth is not in your friend you will not be seeing them much. And not because you do not want to, but they will avoid you like the plague. They will not know a true friend when they see one. Only because they do not know how to compare.

I realize everyone does not fit these stories. But the point is we compare Christ to life in this world. We compare God to what we have seen in people. We can never compare God to anything in this world. We go to church and find that the people there are some of the worst people you could be around. We can not compare God to them. We must compare them to God and His word. If they do not measure up we need to identify and compare those findings. The Bible tells us go out into the world and preach and teach. If the people that are preaching and teaching are not practicing what God’s word says, you need to leave them as fast as you can. The scriptures tells us not to be found with them. We do not trust God’s word or the promises we have in Jesus Christ, because we compare them to the world and the world is not what God is about. When we trust and learn of the things of God, those thing can only be compared to God. Nothing in this world compares to God.

When you learn to compare remember, nothing measures up to God, and never think God is the way the world is. God is good and we need to grow in Him through His Son Jesus Christ. There is no comparison.

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