Are you ever tempted to compare yourself to others?

Do you ever think, “They have a better job than I have, she is much smarter than me, he has his life so under control, everything goes right for my friends but not for me…and on and on…?”

Comparisons are generally not healthy. They can lead to great frustration, feeling of failure and even depression.

Human comparisons can be such a burden because they’re done on a material basis. They size up outward factors like fame, fortune, status, education, prestige, acquisitions, and position. They reason out from a material premise that the substance of being is a summation of material qualities, conditions, situations and circumstances. And it’s demoralizing because we can always find others that seem to be way ahead of where we are.

There is a spiritual solution, and it rests in understanding our true selfhood as children of God, not children of the world. None of us can be sized up correctly from an outward material point of view. The material senses cannot take in the glorious substance of Spirit which constitutes our true being.

We are spiritual. Our individuality is spiritual. As children of God we are wonderful, delightful, intelligent, beautiful, whole, complete, and perfect in every detail. We cannot be improved or moved to a better position, nor do we lack.

Each of us is as precious, important and valuable as anyone else, with no exceptions.

In the long run scheme of things, you are just as significant and contributory to the goodness of the universe as a Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Mary Baker Eddy, or any other great thinker, doer and actor on the human scene.

We all seem to be at different stages of unfoldment and development of our spiritual potential from a human point of view, but again, the human is not the full picture. The divine is the correct picture! In the divine, we are totally complete right now!

So drop any temptation to compare yourself to other humans. Don’t be tempted to think they have it better than you do, are ahead of you, or behind you.

Jesus Christ looked at everyone from a spiritual point of view. He did not draw final conclusions based upon evidence of the material senses. He looked beyond the lacking picture of mortal mind to the divine Mind reality, and there he found the perfect creation of God.

We can do the same. We must look beyond the human, temporal and lacking to the divine, eternal and full. In that picture, comparisons disappear. They are not helpful or needed for any reason.

Why compare? Divine Mind does not compare. God doesn’t compare. Each aspect of creation is loved wholly and dearly just the way it is, including you!