Measuring Up and Falling Short

During a recent small group meeting a couple points of discussion really hit home with me. I'm convicted that too often I live my life seeing how I "measure up" to others. My first tendency is to evaluate and quickly focus on areas where I feel like I may be better than them or more skilled than them or have things that I can teach them, rather than to simply love them and see what areas I am weak in that I could learn from them. Too often I get caught up in elitism and entitlement, and these are tendencies I struggle with and will have to repent of continually.

Yet I can also take encouragement that though I'll wrestle with my own faults for the rest of my life, I know that sanctification is at work, and God's Word is all-powerful to transform hearts that are crooked.

"And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." - Philippians 1:6