Watching television, walking across campus, scrolling through Instagram or Facebook we all compare. Humans naturally have to fight off the temptation of comparison and it can be a prison. What do I mean by that? I mean that it can literally consume all of who we are and all that God tells us that we are. It is so important to wake up every day and remember that we do not have to let the devil and our own sin come in through comparison. He tells us in many different places who we are. However, in Genesis 1: 27, at the beginning of the Bible, we are told that we are made in his image!

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

Do you know how powerful that is? Our God, our beautiful, majestic God says that we are created in his image. This is one way God finishes this statement: I AM _________. He says, “________, you ARE beautiful, loved, accepted…” Let Him finish that statement. This is the reason that I say that comparison is a prison is that it is literally consumed within the word. Actual prisons consume all who we call ourselves and envelope it into a uniform. However, we are not simple creatures, we shouldn’t try to fill in the blank. We are complexed and accepted by our loving and gracious God. As you scroll through Instagram, Facebook, and go through your week think about how God accept YOU! It can be helpful to turn of the notifications on your phone and log off of Facebook on your computer, but that only does so much. You have to know that you are accepted, loved, and treasured by a magnificent God. Your makeup, your hair, or your clothes won't match up in any way to the feeling to acceptance by God. You are treasured.