We see friends achieving success, maybe even in ministry, and rather than rejoicing with them, we somehow feel smaller. So we privately tally our spiritual “successes,” reassuring ourselves that we’re just as necessary as they are. Or perhaps one morning you’re scrolling through your social media feed, when you see her—the woman you secretly compare yourself with—and she’s just posted pictures of her latest family trip (to a place you could never afford). There she sits, effortlessly beautiful even with vacation hair, her arms wrapped around her spunky, albeit well-behaved, children, her
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