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| Sheila Walsh: Break Free From Comparison | 5 Minutes with Jesus | October 17, 2025
- Honestly, comparison is deadly.
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- The trouble
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- With our secret struggles is that they're very believable
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- When they're in the dark,
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- But when they're brought into the light of god,
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- They lose their power.
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- In first
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- John chapter one, verse five, we read these words god is light
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- And there is no darkness in him at all.
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- What this means for us is that whatever baggage
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- We've been carrying around, whatever pain we've stuffed
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- Deep inside,
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- Whatever darkness we have harbored, can be overcome
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- When it's brought into the light of the lord.
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- Everything, all the pain, all the addiction,
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- All the frustration, all the hurt,
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- All the loneliness, all the despair, all the anxiety,
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- All of it
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- Put in its rightful place,
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- Eclipsed by the light of christ presence.
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- But how do we live like that every day?
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- How do we live in his light?
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- Every single day.
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- Well, we bring our pain, our buried wounds into his presence.
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- We tell god everything.
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- One of the hardest things to deal with this.
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- When we compare our lives to others,
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- There's social media moments.
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- Make it look as if everything is perfect and our lives are not.
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- Or it might be that you grew up in a home
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- In which
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- Your parents perpetually made you feel like a disappointment.
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- You're always compared to sibling, and you felt less than
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- As life went on.
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- You fell into one abusive relationship after another,
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- Leaving a piece of your heart behind with every departure
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- You made.
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- Life has been a series of disappointments and lies.
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- And because of the wounds you've worn, you wonder
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- If there's anything but darkness to be found.
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- Or maybe you've been comparing yourself with another person
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- Since you were young.
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- And those years of stand yourself up next to others
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- And always coming away feeling less than is overwhelming.
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- Honestly, comparison is deadly.
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- The trouble with our secret struggles
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- Is that they're very believable when they're in the dark,
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- But when they're
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- Brought into the light of god, they lose their power.
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- Which is perhaps
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- Why it's impossible to understand grace in the dark.
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- God's grace lives in the light.
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- It pours out into those who think they're broken
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- Beyond repair.
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- You're not.
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- You are a unique and beautiful creation of god.
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- There's no one else like you.
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- You don't let the enemy rob you of the joy
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- Of knowing that you are a child of god.
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- You're part of heaven's royal family as you are right now.
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- You're loved by god.
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- Love the scripture.
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- That is why we never give up.
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- Though our bodies are dying.
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- Our spirits are being renewed every day.
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- For our present troubles are small and won't last very long.
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- Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them
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- And will last forever.
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- So we don't look at the troubles we can see right now.
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- Rather, we fix our gaze in things that cannot be seen.
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- For the things we see now will soon be gone.
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- But the things we cannot see will last forever.
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- A second corinthians chapter four.
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- Let me pray for you.
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- Father, i want to thank you so much for
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- The fact that you are with us and you know us.
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- Lord, sometimes shame keeps us in the dark, but i pray
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- Right now for anyone watching, anyone listening to this,
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- That you would give them
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- The courage to simply bring all of who they are
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- Into your light.
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- I love that david said in psalm 34, those
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- Who look to you for help will be radiant with joy.
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- No shadow of shame will touch their faces.
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- In jesus name, amen.
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