{"id":44041,"date":"2022-02-02T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=44041"},"modified":"2022-02-02T03:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:08:50","slug":"the-trap-of-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=44041","title":{"rendered":"The Trap of Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s 10:30 pm&mdash;time for Erin to hop into bed and scroll through social media one last time. This evening, she lands on Instagram. For a half-hour, her fingers swipe through visually filtered images of beautiful women, families posing as best friends, picturesque plates of food, and houses far more elegant and expensive than hers. She dozes off feeling insecure, envious of her friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2022\/02\/02\/the-trap-of-comparison\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all compare ourselves to others. When we do so, we are robbed of joy. Why? Because one of two things happens. Either we feel inferior to the people of comparison\u2014resulting in some combination of shame, covetousness, anger, anxiety, guilt, self-doubt, or self-hatred. Or we feel superior to the people of comparison\u2014resulting in some combination of pride, self-righteousness, and judgmentalism. Either way, we\u2019re left joyless. Instead of comparing ourselves to others, we must focus our eyes on the love of God, on our identity in Christ, and on sacrificially serving others in love. When we do so, we experience deep, unshakable, soul-level joy. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":44043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[436,239,4644,1229,4645,2315,739,1767,4646,4647,660,4648,1943,1724,4649,3688,4650,466,4651],"class_list":["post-44041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-anger","tag-anxiety","tag-comparison","tag-contentment","tag-covetousness","tag-discontent","tag-identity","tag-identity-in-christ","tag-inferiority","tag-insecurity","tag-joy","tag-judgmentalism","tag-pride","tag-self-righteousness","tag-self-doubt","tag-self-esteem-self-image","tag-self-hatred","tag-shame","tag-superiority","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44044,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions\/44044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}